{"id":186433,"date":"2016-11-09T18:04:03","date_gmt":"2016-11-09T16:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=186433"},"modified":"2016-11-09T18:06:12","modified_gmt":"2016-11-09T16:06:12","slug":"facebook-messenger-to-send-advertisements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/186433-facebook-messenger-to-send-advertisements.html","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Messenger to send advertisements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook Messenger plans to <a href=\"https:\/\/messengerblog.com\/platform-updates\/introducing-messenger-platform-v1-3-and-new-ways-to-drive-the-conversation\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>send sponsored messages<\/strong><\/a> to users following the successful testing of the new feature, <a href=\"http:\/\/thenextweb.com\/apps\/2016\/11\/09\/facebook-messenger-ads\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The Next Web<\/strong><\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>The report stated that users who have interacted with businesses through Facebook Messenger by requesting information from a bot will receive the advertising messages.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What\u2019s unclear, however, is if Facebook is able to make a distinction between messages sent to automated chat bots and those sent to human representatives managing a support page,&#8221; stated the report.<\/p>\n<p>The report also stated that Facebook is introducing a new type of ad in its News Feed which allows users to communicate directly with the brand doing the advertising.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/186249-facebook-agrees-to-suspend-using-whatsapp-user-data.html\">Facebook agrees to suspend using WhatsApp user data<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook Messenger plans to send sponsored messages to users following the successful testing of the new feature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":184104,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[36,161,8887],"class_list":["post-186433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-active","tag-facebook","tag-facebook-messenger"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186433"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186433"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186435,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186433\/revisions\/186435"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}