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Facebook’s Messenger bots have proved to be a hit amongst businesses, and now — following a successful testing period — the social networking giant is looking to capitalize on the feature’s large user base with the mass introduction of sponsored messages. Using the new advertising platform, businesses can display “highly-targeted, in-context” ads, but instead of appearing in News Feeds, they’ll show up in Messenger threads. Fortunately, companies won’t be able to send sponsored messages to all Facebook users. Their mailing list will only consist of people that have messaged them in the past requesting information from a bot. What’s unclear, however,…

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