The move makes Facebook one of the first major chat app platforms to provide analytics for its bot makers. More than 34,000 developers have made Messenger bots since the platform launched in April.

Last year, Facebook made analytics tools available for apps synched to the social network. Providing the insights to bots at Facebook-owned Messenger moves them outside the social network for the ...

Part of that was on purpose, says David Marcus, head of Facebook Messenger. He wanted to give businesses a year to build good bots first. Now he wants to make them easy to find. “While the first ...

But it was Facebook (FB) that arguably ignited interest in bots at its F8 conferencein April, when it announced Messenger Platform, a new API for businesses to develop chat bots that live inside ...

CNN and NBCUniversal's Fandango are among the first to tap into Facebook Messenger "bots" — which let users get automated info from artificial-intelligence agents.

Facebook on last Monday began letting interactive "bots" inside its Messenger service tap into analytic capabilities once reserved for the social network, ramping up the potential to earn money ...