A Whatsapp Bot Platform Soon ?

Hi Keith!
In facts, yes, until now Whatsapp is closed to bots and until now the company “banned” all unofficial third parties tempts to realize bots, even if …

between the lines of a Whatsapp official blog post published in Italian Whatsapp blog web page last 25 Aug 2016:

Looking ahead for WhatsAppToday, we're updating WhatsApp's terms and privacy policy for the first time in four years, as part of our plans to…blog.whatsapp.com

It seems to me that they will offer some business chatbots APIs by the end of the year… so just a rumor right now; any spoilers ? ;-)

BTW, maybe your article could be updated because this yesterday news:

Twitter https://twitter.com/solyarisoftware/status/793831819019825152

Thanks & regards
giorgio