Have you ever notice that a contact from your Gtalk/Google Talk had not been online since many days,but usually he used to be online every now and then, have you ever thought that they might blocked you ? If you are eager to find out who has blocked you in Gtalk, here’s a simple trick to find out whats cooking around your Google Talk.

Here is the method to find out with the help of a chat client named Pidgin which is also compatible with Gtalk and other chat clients like yahoo,rediff and many more.

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1. To Configure Pidgin for Google Talk,  Click on Add button-> Accounts -> Manage Account will also bring you to the same screen. Now its time to add Gtalk to Pidgin.

2. Clicking on  Add will allow you to add new Gtalk account in Pidgin chat client. The following two screenshots show what you need to fill up for Basic and Advance tab.

Now with all these  settings properly entered, you should be able to connect to Gtalk and load your contacts successfully. Now its time to find who as blocked you.

3. Now you can see who as blocked you. ( Look at the demo below)

When someone blocked you in Gtalk (and other IMs), they appear offline just like your other contacts who are really offline. But here in pidgin if they are really offline then you will find details  with image else if they blocked you, then you will find nothing but the blank space with offline symbol . To check in your chat client

* Right click, click on Get Info, and we’ll know the difference .

Now check the difference of both the image above.

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