Facebook Messenger now has 11,000 chatbots for you to try – VentureBeat

Facebook today release new statistics on the growth of chatbots on its Messenger messaging app and also announced new features related to chatbots. Since the chatbot platform launched in April, more than 11,000 bots have been added to Messenger, Facebook vice president of messaging products David Marcus wrote in a Facebook post. For some context, in May, Marcus said that "tens of thousands" of developers were working on Messenger bots. Also, more than 23,000 people have created accounts for the Bot Engine tool from wit.ai, Facebook's natural language processing service for developers, Marcus wrote. And Facebook now lets users rate Messenger chatbots, from one to five stars, and write reviews.