{"id":250925,"date":"2018-03-02T10:04:24","date_gmt":"2018-03-02T08:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=250925"},"modified":"2018-03-02T10:06:25","modified_gmt":"2018-03-02T08:06:25","slug":"facebook-testing-messenger-broadcasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/250925-facebook-testing-messenger-broadcasts.html","title":{"rendered":"Facebook testing Messenger broadcasts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook is testing a messaging tool which lets companies broadcast messages to users, <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2018\/03\/01\/facebook-messenger-broad\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>TechCrunch<\/strong><\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>The self-service tool allows small businesses who cannot build their own bots to send messages to all users who have started a conversation with them.<\/p>\n<p>A public test version of Facebook&#8217;s Messenger Broadcast Composer has been rolled out to certain pages in the United States, Mexico, and Thailand.<\/p>\n<p>The tool is currently free, but Facebook will reportedly charge businesses to use it in the future.<\/p>\n<p>The number of messages which can be sent through the tool are also capped.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/250911-facebook-will-live-stream-the-oscars-all-access.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Facebook will live-stream The Oscars: All Access<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook is testing a new messaging tool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":184104,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[49223,161,3560],"class_list":["post-250925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-broadcast-messages","tag-facebook","tag-messenger"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250925"}],"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=250925"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":250953,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250925\/revisions\/250953"}],"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=250925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}