https://alimov.dev/tags/messenger/ Recent content in Messenger on alimov.dev Hugo en-us Sat, 18 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://alimov.dev/posts/ai-agent-wars-telegram-vs-whatsapp-vs-messenger-vs-instagram/ Sat, 18 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://alimov.dev/posts/ai-agent-wars-telegram-vs-whatsapp-vs-messenger-vs-instagram/ <h2 id="every-platform-picked-a-side">Every Platform Picked a Side</h2> <p>Two API changes, six weeks apart, tell you everything about where the AI agent war in messaging is heading.</p> <p>On December 31, 2025, Telegram shipped Bot API 9.3 with a new method called <a href="https://core.telegram.org/bots/api#sendmessagedraft"><code>sendMessageDraft</code></a> — &ldquo;allowing partial messages to be streamed to a user while being generated.&rdquo; A first-class streaming primitive, designed explicitly for LLM traffic, available to every developer with a bot token.</p> <p>On January 15, 2026, Meta&rsquo;s updated WhatsApp Business terms took effect: <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/18/whatssapp-changes-its-terms-to-bar-general-purpose-chatbots-from-its-platform/">general-purpose AI assistants are banned</a> from the WhatsApp Business API. ChatGPT, Perplexity, and every other horizontal assistant that had been quietly building distribution on WhatsApp had to leave.</p>