[gcmartinelli]

I believe this an amazing move by Telegram. I firmly believe that open platforms tend to win in the long run.

Whatsapp should take the hint and open up their platform for developers... Curiously I was thinking about building bot-based services on their platform (largest user base in my country), but basically gave up after seing how closed they are to any initiative like this. Felt even worse after reading things like this: https://twitter.com/gcmartinelli/status/605776036358291456

[techaddict009]

http://www.whatshash.com/ Someone built whatsapp bot! I dont know if they used some official api or what.

[gcmartinelli]

Thanks for the reference! I've seen some implementations (https://github.com/asdofindia/python-whatsapp-bot) but usually Whatsapp bans accounts that do it.