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.

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 ...

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 ...

The technology behind the snazzy new “bots” Facebook is rolling out for its Messenger chat app has enormous potential to internalize payments within social media experiences like shopping, travel and ...

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Facebook is making it easier than ever for brands to lure you into chatting with them. The social network rolled out a new type of ad on Tuesday that lets advertisers with or without Messenger bots ...

Facebook has become the latest communications platform to embrace the burgeoning field of automated bots by launching its own suite of developer tools for its Messenger communication app at the F8 ...