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04-18-2017, 10:45 PM
Facebook is giving Messenger bots a massive overhaul
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Facebook (http://mashable.com/category/facebook/) is making its Messenger bots (http://mashable.com/2017/03/02/facebook-lessy-chatty-chatbots/) a lot more useful.*
Today, at its F8 developer conference, the company introduced a new type of Messenger bot that allows people to access developers' bots inside of existing conversations on the messaging app.*
SEE ALSO: Facebook just reinvented Clippy (http://mashable.com/2017/04/06/facebook-messenger-ai-m-clippy/?utm_cid=a-seealso&utm_campaign=&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=)
That may sound like a small change but it could be transformational. Instead of the siloed experiences that force you to open a new message thread each time you want to engage with a company or service, you can **w take advantage of the bots inside the conversations you're already having.
These new bots, which Facebook has dubbed Chat Extensions, don't look anything like the clunky and overall pretty terrible bots that Facebook first introduced last year. They look and feel more like an app than an automated chatbot.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/04/18/facebook-messenger-platform-2-0/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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Facebook (http://mashable.com/category/facebook/) is making its Messenger bots (http://mashable.com/2017/03/02/facebook-lessy-chatty-chatbots/) a lot more useful.*
Today, at its F8 developer conference, the company introduced a new type of Messenger bot that allows people to access developers' bots inside of existing conversations on the messaging app.*
SEE ALSO: Facebook just reinvented Clippy (http://mashable.com/2017/04/06/facebook-messenger-ai-m-clippy/?utm_cid=a-seealso&utm_campaign=&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=)
That may sound like a small change but it could be transformational. Instead of the siloed experiences that force you to open a new message thread each time you want to engage with a company or service, you can **w take advantage of the bots inside the conversations you're already having.
These new bots, which Facebook has dubbed Chat Extensions, don't look anything like the clunky and overall pretty terrible bots that Facebook first introduced last year. They look and feel more like an app than an automated chatbot.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/04/18/facebook-messenger-platform-2-0/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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