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1. #WEATHERCAT TWITTER HOW TO#
2. #WEATHERCAT TWITTER UPDATE#
3. #WEATHERCAT TWITTER ANDROID#
4. #WEATHERCAT TWITTER PLUS#
5. #WEATHERCAT TWITTER FREE#

My guess is this is all just teething problems right now, but who's to say what the lag time will be once more people start using these bots.

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But I've read on Twitter and elsewhere that people have experienced minutes-long wait times, which isn't ideal at all if you're waiting for an update on something like breaking news or the weather. I actually got responses pretty quickly - just a few seconds after I sent the initial text.

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Another concern are sponsored messages - Facebook has to make money on this whole bot thing somehow - but you're free to block those too.Īs for response time, well, it varies. If you'd rather not get any more messages from a bot, you can always block them. I tried to get the Healthtap bot working to see if it could diagnose a phantom cramp, but it wasn't quite ready at the time.

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I also played around briefly with the WSJ bot (get the latest updates on stocks), plus the 1-800-Flowers bot (order flowers for your sweetie right on Messenger) and both worked well enough.

Then it said "Hehehe." I was charmed despite myself. I asked it to tell me a joke, to which it responded, "Excuse me, I'm not just here for your entertainment." "Haha," I replied. You can even ask it to convert to Celsius and it'll do so. It then asked me my location, at which point I replied "San Francisco." It took a few tries - Poncho just launched a few hours ago and is still fairly new - but it eventually gave me the current temperature and weather condition (59 degrees Fahrenheit and mostly cloudy, if you must know). Then it identified itself as a "weathercat," at which point I could either respond with "Weathercat?" or "Um, okay." It felt like a choose-your-own-adventure game. Once I hit "Get Started," on it, it pretended as if it was waking up from a long slumber. Poncho, on the other hand, is a little glimpse into how chatbots can be funny and sassy. Still, you can't really get too sassy with it - typing "Hello" and "Goodbye" will just return results that have those words in the headline. I especially liked the news summary response that gives me a brief overview of the news without having to read the whole story. On the whole, the bot worked pretty well considering it's brand new. "Ask CNN" simply asks you keywords to get more specific results. This layout makes a lot more sense than the beta Bing News bot I tried on Skype, which returned vertical search results - a horizontal layout doesn't hog up the whole screen, letting you see more of the previous conversation.Įach CNN story had its own "chat bubble" complete with image, headline and three options: "Read story," "Get a summary" or "Ask CNN." "Read story" simply kicks you over to the CNN mobile page to read the whole story, while "Get a summary" prompts a quick one to two paragraph summary of the article. Just swipe left or right to navigate through them. Not now Turn on Turned on Turn onĪfter selecting "Top Stories," the CNN bot returned a list of five articles laid out horizontally. You can disable notifications at any time in your settings menu. The latter defaults to just popular articles for now though the idea is that the app will learn your preferences over time.

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(Others I was only able to get a passing look at basically.) CNN sent me a greeting, along with instructions on how to use it - I can either type in a few keywords to look up certain stories or choose between "Top Stories" and "Stories for you". I was only able to really put the CNN and Poncho bots through their paces during my brief hands-on at F8. Underneath is a "Get started" button that launches a conversation.

Once you've made your selection, you'll see a splash page along with a description of what it does. Right now there are a few dozen or so bots, with more to be added in the coming months. Peter Martinazzi, a product manager for Messenger, told me that eventually they'll start populating the search area with bot suggestions based on previously used ones. Tap it and you can start searching for your bot of choice. Once you launch the app, you'll find that there's now a persistent search bar at the top.

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First, you have to download the latest version of Messenger - it should be available on both Android and iOS. But before I get into talking about those particular bots, let's go over how you find them in first place.