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Thanks for the feedback @david_west! To comment on your question - I read an article a few days ago, and it talked about the adoption of chatbots for public figures. I think in the next few years as people understand chatbots, they will start to play a bigger role in strengthening the brand of these public figures. Imagine you're someone who has a massive following on social media, how do you communicate with your audience in a more personalized way? I believe having a conversational interface is a much more enjoyable experience and that one-to-one connection is huge!

@whoismaxpelzner Fair point & maybe I'll eat my words but I just don't see myself as a user of that type of experience (although I'm sure others do, hence your awesome new product & why Facebook went all in on it). I just find the "noise" too much to handle & I think scale, relevancy & stickiness are huge challenges to overcome with these products in our busy lives today. Something I'd feel much more compelled to use would be something bigger. Start a conversation in a similar vein and get fed answers/tips from multiple influencers, so there's a much larger fountain of knowledge to tap into. Like a humungous conversational search engine, that learns the more developers & users contribute to it. As a user you pick say 10 topics & 10 influencers (or maybe it is automatic using Facebook profile info) & you get fed conversations in a similar style, when content arises that match your interests or conversations (i.e. it remembers those conversations you have had). For example: "here is my new favourite productivity app, I just invested in this business, I have a new recipe, or here is me training on the football field today". Restricted to maybe a few campaigns a month. That's how I would expect Facebook to go with bots, from influencers with big followings, but I don't sense that will ever be the case. It's the same with voice recognition, it needs to be learning & not be restricted to hard-coded intents or instances. The world is crying out for more integrated products I think & I just hope we're not too far away. #rantover

@david_west @whoismaxpelzner I get the skepticism with these types of products... Ive built some myself though. I think that these will work well as long as the person who its about is actually involved. New quizes, content, Q&As etc - Questions to be actually submitted etc. I think there is a lot of cool things you can do with them with the support of the 'celeb' However, without that - and just fan-made, they can be a bit static. I think a lot of these will need to be put out there for people to pay attention in their masses though so I like that people like Max (and I) are just doing it for fun right now! :) I could be wildly wrong though haha

@bentossell @whoismaxpelzner Totally agree Ben - not been through the process myself but I sense these are not that easy to update the content and support. Quiet intensive? Hopefully it will be easier to build the knowledge-base quickly, continue to support & for there to be some control over who can publish & support these. Until then, I guess I'll keep an eye on the bot world until the industry gets shaped to become more in line with what I would like to see.

@david_west @whoismaxpelzner I guess it depends how you build it really. For example, My Q&As could be easily reproduced and new content added. Guess theres content on both sides of the scale!

@whoismaxpelzner Nice work dude! Emoji's in buttons - a must! There is obviously a lot more you can add here. E.g. the question section. But the MVB is good! Suggesting: Add Daily Vee videos? You can use a Zapier plugin to get the latest video delivered to a part of the bot too, thats always a nice toch

@bentossell already got some of these ideas written down for AskGaryVee2 😉!