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Pinterest rolls out chatbot, native features for Facebook’s Messenger

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rvlsoft / Shutterstock.com Pinterest is making a home for itself on Facebook’s Messenger. On Tuesday, the social-cum-search platform debuted a chatbot for the Facebook-owned messaging service and a new way for people to interact with pins shared on Messenger. Both moves make it possible to use Pinterest within Messenger without needing to use Pinterest outside […]

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Facebook acquires teen-centric polling app tbh and all its valuable data

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Facebook continues to grapple with its teen problem. Four years ago, Facebook’s then-CFO David Ebersman admitted that the social network “did see a decrease in daily users specifically among younger teens.” A month later, news broke that the company had tried but failed to buy Snapchat, which was and continues to be exceedingly popular among

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Facebook spins off ‘messages’ as standalone ad objective to boost Messenger bots

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Every month, 18 million businesses exchange more than 2 billion messages with people on Messenger, according to David Marcus, head of the Facebook-owned messaging service. That sounds like a lot, and it is. It’s 100 percent more messages than were exchanged a year ago, he said. Now, to spark more conversations between people and businesses,

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Messenger’s M assistant will suggest buying movie tickets through Fandango, sharing GIFs

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Facebook’s Messenger is rolling out a few new ways for its in-app virtual assistant, M, to contribute to people’s conversations. M will now recognize when people are talking about going to see a movie and present a button to buy tickets through Fandango. It will also nudge people to share GIFs and offer quick-reply

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Facebook tests group video chat app called Bonfire

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Facebook is making another foray into the group video chat space. Facebook has rolled out a standalone mobile app in Denmark called Bonfire that enables people to host video calls with multiple people. The Next Web first reported the news on Wednesday, which a Messenger spokesperson later confirmed. “At Facebook Inc. we continue to build

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The year in social marketing so far

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The social marketing landscape shifts so quickly that a half-year review isn’t so much ridiculous as almost requisite, if only to keep track of what has changed already in 2017. When 2016 ended, Snapchat was a social darling, Facebook videos could be watched uninterrupted, and Instagram’s Stories product was smaller than Snapchat’s original. Then 2017

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Facebook’s Messenger officially debuts Discover tab to highlight chatbots, businesses

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Originally a place for people to chat with their friends, Facebook’s Messenger is officially making a home for people to find businesses and bots to talk to. On Wednesday, Messenger began rolling out a Discover tab to make everyone in the US more aware of the chatbots and business accounts on the Facebook-owned messaging platform.

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