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:

Love Telegram. The cross-device message read state syncing is flawless.

I wrote about stuff like this earlier this year: https://medium.com/@orliesaurus/... - if you're interested in chatbots and chatops please reach out to me :)

This is amazing... on the eve of F8, Telegram drops Bot Platform 2.0 and new Sharing and Previews. Check out these video to sample some of the new features: https://telegram.org/resources/v... https://telegram.org/resources/v... https://telegram.org/resources/v... https://telegram.org/resources/v...

Telegram's way ahead of whatsapp in thinking about the future.

I love telegram...we actually stopped using the all mighty slack in favour of telegram, best decision ever...https://chema.ga/slack-to-telegram/

Is it a Bot??? It is functioning more like 3rd party keyboard like slash where u can search- Choose- Send

This bot influx is getting ridiculous. Love it!

Telegram is a incredible product, much better than Whatsapp. This bot will make things easier.

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!

The video reminds me of @cemkozinoglu

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 :)

It's nice, but the bots on telegram are not working well. Sometimes have to blacklisted them just to stop them sending info, even after paused. Hope it will be better.

This is awesome. Time to update my Telegram Bot PHP SDK (https://github.com/irazasyed/tel...) to V3 :)

Love Telegram. They're getting better and better.

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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.

Sweeeeet

love it

i love this thing.