Facebook officially unveils Messenger as a platform with new API

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by Sindy Cator on March 25, 2015 at 5:21 pm

Today at Facebook’s F8 Developer Conference, the company announced that it will make Messenger’s API available to third party developers. Facebook has been quietly working with select partners to offer an array of available Messenger-integrated apps at launch. Now, instead of manually selecting to share content, then choosing Messenger from the list of apps, a one-button approach should streamline the process. “We’ve been building Messenger as a way to express yourselves in more than just text,” Mark Zuckerberg said during the opening keynote. Most of the launch partners for Messenger Platform are focused on content creation, GIFs and emoji (naturally). Some of the apps…