Facebook Messenger will soon get a lot more crowded. There are more than 10,000 developers building bots for Facebook's messaging platform, Messenger's head of product said in an interview Tuesday.

Facebook is doing everything it can to increase the popularity of Messenger and to make every Facebook user use it. Recently, Facebook introduced features like sending money, booking Uber cabs (mostly ...

Facebook today launched two powerful ways for people to find Messenger bots to use, addressing the discovery problem that’s plagued the platform’s 100,000 developers. TechCrunch reported last month ...

Chatible, a bot that randomly connects anonymous Facebook Messenger users, has surpassed 250,000 users since its debut three weeks ago, according to creator Zain Amro. “I created Chatible because I ...

Spotify will be launching a bot for Facebook Messenger users that lets friends discover and share music directly in their chats. The bot, which takes advantage of Facebook’s soon-to-launch chat ...

Sprout Social has introduced a new capability into its social media management platform that allows brands to build a customized chatbot for Facebook Messenger. That bot's duty? Serve as a front-line ...

Apps are old school. Bots are the future. “Conversational UIs” will replace the web. That, in a nutshell, is the thinking behind a developer gold rush happening right now. Facebook announced bots for ...

CNN and NBCUniversal’s Fandango are among the first in the media and entertainment biz to tap into Facebook Messenger “bots,” which let users get automated info from artificial-intelligence agents.

At its F8 developer conference, Facebook unveiled a new Messenger platform that allows developers to build bots inside Facebook Messenger. Bots are hot; they could even be the future. At its a heart, ...

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