Bots seems to have become a fundamental prerequisite for any messaging platform that wants to succeed in the market. Telegram, one of the first to use bots was in fact, a few weeks ago launched a competition of bots incentivizing developers with prizes of up to $10,000.
Soon after, Facebook launched copy machinery and three months ago launched the first bots on the Messenger platform. From the date, Messaging service already has more than 11,000 bots. Facebook Messenger updated service allowing developers the possibility to add new features such as interactive, listed menu of commands, quick answers…
As we can read in the blog of Facebook, users can assess the bots, offering a score in the form of stars and adding comments for developers. Both the stars and the comments can only see displayed by the developers, something that I just do not understand because it forces many users to install them without having an opinion formed in the respect of this bot.
In addition, fast responses allow interacting users in a faster and more concrete way, knowing in advance that you can and that you don’t have the bot. These bots are aimed at businesses that want to be in touch with your potential customers via Messenger. Floating menus at bots, allow us to know at all times the commands that you can use to interact with the bot in such a way that we don’t have to rescan for them whenever we want to interact with it.
Currently about 23,000 developers have signed up to the program Wit.aiengine that offers all the necessary information to create bots for the Messenger platform, so if in just three months already have more 11,000 bots, in a year, this number might be impressive to becoming a headache rather than a useful for user assistance for sure there is more than one and two that perform the same functions.
