As predicted, developers can now build bots inside Facebook Messenger.
The announcement was one of the highlights of Facebook’s jam-packed F8 schedule and it further proves what many have been predicting for a long time, bots are the future.
Right now, the bots that are available are more limited – and the discovery process isn’t perfect – but it’s clear now, more than ever, that bots make a lot of sense.
Beyond that, Messenger’s bot strategy speaks to a few realities of modern computing and communication.
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