Sprout Social Are Helping People Build Bots on Twitter
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There's no reason why chatbots shouldn't pop up just as often on Twitter, but the company have dedicated much more time and effort to other developmental avenues. That's where Sprout Social come in. The company behind one of the most popular management and analytics tools have turned their attention to chatbots, and have put together a product called Bot Builder.
As the name suggests, Bot Builder enables companies to create customer support chatbots for their brands. Said bots will be able to answer relatively basic support questions, verify user identification and help with other small tasks. If they can't resolve the issue on their own, the bots will act as a bridge between the users and actual human customer support providers.
Twitter has always been the best social media platform for customer service, but it's never really had a serviceable automated system for it. Chatbots certainly do exist on the platform, but they're more of a curiosity than anything else. Some companies have toyed with AI Twitter accounts which reply to users through tagging, but as Microsoft unwittingly demonstrated last year, there's still a lot of bugs to work out of that particular approach.
The question is, since customer support chatbots seem like such a logical step for Twitter, why haven't they developed them themselves? They claim that they would rather make Twitter into a 'canvas' for third parties to develop services that benefit them, rather than trying to please everyone and ending up stretching themselves too thin. It makes sense, and Sprout Social certainly have the means and expertise to do this.
The AI Sprout have used for bot builder is very basic at present. It may well become more sophisticated over time, but the main focus is on enabling brands to build the bots into their pre-existing accounts, rather than creating all new ones. Once you get that, only the most essential chatbot functionality is really necessary. There's no word on a full release just yet, but it probably isn't too far off.
Callum is a film school graduate who is now making a name for himself as a journalist and content writer. His vices include flat whites and 90s hip-hop. Follow him @Songbird_Callum
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