Trillian is a

proprietary {{Short pages monitor More than a year after the release of ''Trillian 3.1'', the Cerulean Studios blog began spreading news again and announced the next version of Trillian, to be named ''Trillian Astra''. The name for version 4, ''Astra'', is the nickname used by the same fictional character that is the namesake of the software, which is a reference to

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. The new release claimed to be faster and include a new login screen. A new domain, www.trillianastra.com, was disclosed to the public, with only the logo and blue background. On July 3, 2009, Cerulean Studios reopened the premium web version of Astra to public testing. On August 14, 2009, Cerulean Studios released the final gold build. Trillian has its own social network named Astra Network, in which users who have Astra ID can communicate with each other on the network regardless of platform. Cerulean Studios later registered a new domain, www.trillian.im, to provide a more user-friendly experience. On November 18, 2009, the first mobile version of Trillian was launched for iPhone. As of 2010, final builds for Android,

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, and

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were available for their markets (

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and

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respectively). Trillian initially cost US$4.99 but became free of charge, supported by ads, in 2011. As of August 2010, the

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version was in beta testing.

Trillian 5

On August 2, 2010, Trillian 5.0 was released as a public beta. Newer features included a resize-able interface, History synchronization, a new ribbon inspired interface with Windows theme integration, new "marble-like" icons for service providers, the option to revert to the Trillian 3 & 4 interfaces, and a new social network interface window were introduced. Along with Trillian 5.0 For

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and the aforementioned Mac beta. As of 2010, the Android and BlackBerry OS final builds were available on their respective markets for free.

OpenCandy

Included with the installation of Trillian 5.0 was a program called

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, which some security programs, including

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, classed as

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. OpenCandy was removed shortly after on May 5, 2011.

Trillian 6

On January 8, 2016, Trillian 6 was released.

Loss of Networks

Trillian has stopped attempting to work around the systems to make their client work with other networks. They have also not done any development to integrate support for any of the newer networks. Instead they urge people to use their own IM service instead. * As

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has decided to disable legacy support for 3rd party IM clients, Trillian is no longer able to connect to Yahoo as of August 31, 2016. * As AIM has shut down, Trillian, and all other clients, are no longer able to connect to AIM as of December 15, 2017. * As ICQ has decided to disable support for 3rd party IM clients, Trillian is no longer able to connect to ICQ as of April 1, 2019. * MSN IM accounts were also able to be used as

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accounts, when Microsoft Acquired Skype in 2011, but could still use the service at that time. The service was shut down in 2013. * As (Microsoft)

has decided to disable support for 3rd party IM clients, Trillian is no longer able to connect to Skype in 2013 * As Google Talk has shut down, Trillian is no longer able to connect to the service, as of June 16, 2022.

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