Facebook has announced that the it has launched a new video series that is being hosted by Post Malone. This new video series will be available on both Instagram and Messenger and uses the Watch Together option. According to Facebook, Watch Together is available to users who opted in to the new Messenger experience on Instagram, which …

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Despite being around for years now in Snapchat, the disappearing messages trend has begun picking up steam recently, as more and more messaging apps have been seen incorporating it into their platforms. On November 12, Facebook announced their ‘Vanish Mode’ for Messenger, which, you guessed it, will have your messages disappear once you leave the …

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For about a year now, Facebook had been foreahadowing a warning that, in the middle of 2017 sometime, the company will max out the number of ads it can squeeze into people’s news feeds.  When you hit this ad load ceiling, that means Facebook’s ad revenue grown will slow down “meaningfully” in the second half of 2017, according to CFO …

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When it comes to Twitter, the term “bot” can be a little tricky, and this could be why, despite all the hype around chatbots on platforms like Facebook Messenger, Kik, Slack and Skype, Twitter’s own effort concerning chatbots have stayed more or less under the radar.  But this isn’t going to be the case any longer. …

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On Monday, Facebook Messenger has made it easier for companies to sell products through their Messenger bots by adding a buy button, which gives users the ability to buy products from a bot without needing to leave Messenger.  This is a way for brands to direct people from their Facebook ads to there Messenger bots. Originally, if …

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Twitter and Facebook have had a rivalry for a number of years now, and they’ve been doing what they cold to one-up each other as the place online for people to publicly contact businesses.  Over the last year, the rivalry moved over to the private messaging realm, with Facebook turning to Messenger and Twitter turning to …

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The Facebook Messenger Platform was launched about two months ago, and already, it’s changed the bot app landscape pretty significantly.  In an update that was provided by David Marcus, the Vice President of Messaging Products at Facebook, the platform has attracted a number of brands and businesses.  Over 11,000 bots have been launched, and over 23,000 developers have shown …

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Yesterday was Facebook’s annual developers conference, otherwise known as F8.  During their conference, the company made it clear that they want to make sure Messenger is the new way that businesses can connect with people by pushing the platform and their new bot support. Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook, took the attendees of the conference …

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