Last week you may have read on the YouTube blog that we launched YouTube RealTime, a persistent toolbar on YouTube which allows you to see which of your YouTube friends are currently online and what they're watching, a history of their recent activities on the site, and real-time notifications when they perform activities like commenting, favoriting, and uploading.


We launched it on an exclusive invite basis only and invited the first 100 people to write "Yes! Sign me up" in the comments section of the blog post. We saw lots of interest on the YouTube blog, so we wanted to share shared 25 more invitations with the readers of this blog. Therefore, if you want to test this cool new tool out, just write "Yes! Sign me up" along with your YouTube username in the comments section below and we'll add the first 25 respondents.

Please keep in mind that you will need to have friends on YouTube for this to work -- the more you have, the richer the experience, so be sure you accept friend invites and actively manage the list. Participants can enter feedback on RealTime in the forums.

Posted by Curtis Lee, YouTube Team