There was no news from Facebook Messenger Platform team from April.

But here it is - Messenger Platform 2.1 🚀

Two main features are:

1. Built-in NLP support.
Starting today you can directly connect your Facebook bot to Wit.ai (startup Facebook bought 1.5 years ago) without coding.

It'll automatically detect meaning and information in the text of messages that a user sends before it even gets passed to the bot.

Isn't that cool?

Nice move by Facebook to popularize Wit.ai as an NLP provider - make it native.

2. Handover protocol.
This protocol enables businesses to create multiple experiences within a single bot (connect multiple apps to one Facebook page).

There were a lot of dreams about one main BotFather that can handle all the requests and redirect you to different bots.

Seems like we're a step closer to such a world right now.

I genuinely think that a "Handover protocol" feature is opening a huge amount of opportunities that were impossible before.

Already thinking about applying it to the bots we've built.

You should think too! 💪🏻

https://messenger.fb.com/blog/messenger-platform-2-1-brings-new-tools-to-enrich-conversations/