Telegram bots have always felt very janky for me in the past (cc @liveink) but these new capabilities should make them far more usable. Here's a brief demo of the @youtube bot:
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@rrhoover@liveink@youtube I loved them before thanks to @Chatfuel. I get all my notifications sent to Telegram now thanks to amazing integration with Zapier (and to a lesser degree IFTTT)
I still don't get why so much of these kind of apps exist. I use Messenger, Slack and WhatsApp everyday and they are actively working on them. Why would I need Peach/Telegram/whatever?
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@_yannbertrand Telegram is based on the promise of free, secure communication and is funded as such. They do not need to make a profit, they are not beholden to shareholders. Simple as that.
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@andreasduess Don't they have developers and servers that they need to pay for? I thought WhatsApp was free & safe already (I may be wrong).
@_yannbertrand@andreasduess Telegram was advertising encrypted chat since day one. Last year there was a Whatsapp leak, so people concerned by their privacy moved away to Telegram. Same thing happened when Whatsapp was down for a day in Brazil few months ago.
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@_yannbertrand Telegram is funded by the Digital Fortress Foundation - money was set aside, the investment return pays for the app and continued development. More details here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Te...
WhatsApp is owned by Facebook, which doesn't make me feel good about their long-term viability as an independent messaging service.
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@picsoung@andreasduess Thanks for the additionnal information. I'm not gonna use it though since none of my friends are using it...
Statsbot.co <3 Telegram and we've just launched beta for it.
Eager to work with Telegram Bot Platform 2.0.
You can fetch data from Google Analytics and Mixpanel right in Telegram simply by typing questions in natural language.
Viva la bots!
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Telegram is a incredible product, much better than Whatsapp. This bot will make things easier.
it's cute, i can't say its a game changer (everyone is going with these @commands now) and bots, I tried some of their demos and I can't say i'd prefer to use these bots so much more than the actual app, but time will tell as this tech gets better :)
Curious to see how FB will differentiate itself from existing bot platforms like Telegram and Kik. Perhaps the fact that they have such a large user base will do the trick.
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