Chat bots are one of the hottest tech topics of the year. Inspired by trends from Asia, messaging apps like Telegram and Kik have adopted bots — automated accounts from third partners like publishers and brands — to serve users news, entertainment and other information inside the chat experience.
Facebook has seemingly observed these developments. We reported that the social network giant is gearing up to open its Messenger to third party bots soon, while there is even a news app — from Quartz — that adopted the bot style for delivering the day’s important headlines.
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