There’s no doubt that chatbots have become an integral part of today’s customer service, marketing, and Lead generation. More studies have it that bots can reduce customer support costs by up to 30%.

Like this experiment and my thoughts here? Click the heart below.According to Acquire, 1.4 billion people use messaging apps and are willing to converse with bots. Now open up a web browser and type this link in the address bar, replacing &parse_mode=HTMLīasically, we are putting (which are html bold tag) around the field names and adding &parse_mode=HTML to the end so that telegram knows to read the message text as html and thus make the tagged parts bold:

Go to Telegram Botfather (here is the link: ) and create a new bot using the /newbot functionįollow the prompts that Botfather sends to you till he gives you an HTTP Token: To fix these issues, this past weekend I used the Telegram bot API to create my own personal TARS results bot that receives submissions from the bots I create in TARS.īelow are the steps you can follow to do the same: Create a bot on Telegram Of course this method of viewing submissions was not perfect, the email formatting was not optimised for telegram messages, my submissions would get lost in the sea of newsletters and promotional emails and most annoyingly, the email gave me the whole chat summary with just the fields of the chat that I wanted :ĭon’t need this bit when taking a quick peek into my bot’s performance I prefer the way Telegram handles notifications, especially on desktops, and getting the submissions as messages instead of emails was like having a live stream of notifications telling me when people fill out my bot. Linking my Telegram to my email, I instead got a telegram message describing the same:

When someone completed one of my bots, I would get an email summarising their interaction that looks like this: In fact, I like the service so much that I even started using Telegram as my primary Gmail client:Īs a bot builder at TARS, this provided me with significant value. Their apps on Android and Windows are better than those of Messenger and WhatsApp and most importantly for me, their bot platform is the most open that I have found. Telegram is the best messaging app you can download today. Do not get intimidated, this tutorial might look technical but it is not. DISCLAIMER: People who do not know how to code.

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