How many are watching someone elses cam?

There may not be a passive way to find this information out but there is an active more intrusive way. In theory all you would have to do is find an open cam (where it’s set to auto-accept ALL cam view requests) and fill the cam up until you get the “Cam is Full” message code. Since you get an accept message back for each successful cam view request that was accepted you could subtract the amount of successful requests that you sent to fill the cam up from the maximum number of users per cam and you’d know how many were viewing before you filled up the cam. 😎

If I remember correctly, the maximum amount of users is 40. But lately, Yahoo has made some changes to the way cams work.

For example, anonymous users cannot view cams anymore. Also, you cannot view your own cam anymore.

The max cam viewer count per cam I believe is either 40, 49 or 50. I believe it’s either the foremost or the latter, I’d have to double check. While it may not be the default setting, Jeff, it isn’t very hard to find ‘open’ cams with such a setting in use (auto-accept cam view requests) and used to be even simpler when user-created rooms were around.

PS: I double checked with Chet (author of Y!TunnelPro) and according to him it’s 50 so we’ll say 50 until I check personally (it’s been 2 years since I’ve looked into it myself).