Chatbot technology have been around for years now. They started out as an accident on Telegram and then developers started creating little bots on Slack – internally for their team’s use. Then WeChat, China’s Biggest Messaging Platform, began supporting bots and it really took off in China. Since Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, Skype, Slack, and a growing number of bot-creation platforms came online, developers have been churning out chatbots across industries with Facebook’s most recent bot count standing at over 33,000.
