Everyone's building Slackbots. 😊 Curious to see if the same happens when Facebook opens its Messenger platform.

We've been using this for the last couple days at betaworks. Lots of use of /digg trending and /digg fun, and the alerts have been useful. I haven't used the keyword searches yet (others did yesterday, e.g., re the SCOTUS nomination) but I suspect that will prove to be the most useful aspect of it.

Hi PH! We're excited to share v1 of DiggBot with you on Slack. It's a news and content bot that sits on top of Digg's deep cross-publisher data -- 7.5mm new articles daily, from 10mm RSS feeds and 200mm tweets a day! DiggBot will push trending and breaking news, as well as Digg Editions, a twice-daily recap of the best stuff on the internet. You can also ask it to pull top stories using keywords and publisher domains. Our launch post goes into a little more detail here: https://medium.com/@garyliu/intr... Check it out, and let us know what you think! - Gary p.s. DiggBot should come in handy during the NCAA Tournament, with on-demand score updates and push for buzzer beaters/upsets.

@garyliu absolutely love this. Digg just got a whole load better. I did not know that was possible! Keep it up my man, awesome to see Digg knocking it out the park!

One interesting fact about DiggBot is there's a secret command that will pipe you through to me personally, maybe you'll be able to discover it ;)