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DiggBot for Slack - Discover the best of the web, right in Slack

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Maker
Hi PH! We're excited to share v1 of DiggBot with you on Slack. It's a news and content bot that sits on top of Digg's deep cross-publisher data -- 7.5mm new articles daily, from 10mm RSS feeds and 200mm tweets a day! DiggBot will push trending and breaking news, as well as Digg Editions, a twice-daily recap of the best stuff on the internet. You can also ask it to pull top stories using keywords and publisher domains. Our launch post goes into a little more detail here: Check it out, and let us know what you think! - Gary p.s. DiggBot should come in handy during the NCAA Tournament, with on-demand score updates and push for buzzer beaters/upsets.
Everyone's building Slackbots. 😊 Curious to see if the same happens when Facebook opens its Messenger platform.
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Probably will slow down, but we definitely think about "messaging" as an aggregate platform, with Slack and FB Messenger being just a part of it. It's rare to have > 1B users suddenly accessible across mature apps. Sticking with just one would miss the point.
Facebook will bring this whole paradigm into the mainstream.. and with such a low barrier for devs to make something along with the 800+ million actives already there, it's should be pretty huge.
Maker
One interesting fact about DiggBot is there's a secret command that will pipe you through to me personally, maybe you'll be able to discover it ;)
absolutely love this. Digg just got a whole load better. I did not know that was possible! Keep it up my man, awesome to see Digg knocking it out the park!
Maker
Thanks Harry! Would love your feedback.
We've been using this for the last couple days at betaworks. Lots of use of /digg trending and /digg fun, and the alerts have been useful. I haven't used the keyword searches yet (others did yesterday, e.g., re the SCOTUS nomination) but I suspect that will prove to be the most useful aspect of it.