Facebook just announced a major update to the Messenger Platform
As spotted over on the bots Facebook group. Facebook just announced quite a major update to their Messenger platform. I’ve tried to give a brief overview of some of the new features and how this affects bots moving forwards. The changes come into place on March 20th.
New Persistent Menu with localization
The first new feature, and by far the most exciting new feature. The completely re-designed Persistent Menu. Previously the menu was hidden behind a hamburger button. But today, the menu items are visible at all times, and you can now have submenus in your menus. This new menu also has localization support.
Ability to disable text input
The thing that really get’s me excited, you can now completely disable text input. I’ve been a long time hater of the term “chatbot”, especially the fake AI that some people claim to be using for these. Hopefully this will help lay this thing to rest.
New sharing features
They’ve also improved the sharing features and improved their deep linking support.
New bot targeting
You can now limit your bot’s access to specific countries. This is a great feature for bots to be used in specific countries.
And many more features and improvements, check out their changelog.
You’ll be pleased to hear that The Bot Platform will support all of theses new features at launch.
Learn more about these improvements and how bots are delivering real ROI over in our next webinar or download the white paper.
