President Donald Trump being impeached<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\nOnce users install the Paddy Power bot to Messenger, they’re be able to log into their betting account through Facebook and “chat” with the bot as they would their friends. But the Paddy bot will also allow people to see\u00a0odds, place bets, and receive live updates about games with\u00a0money on the line.<\/p>\n
As a marketing device, the Facebook Messenger option allows Paddy Power to push relevant odds to customers, based on their preferences and settings, and encourage them to bet.<\/p>\n
Friendly Wagers?<\/h2>\n
Paddy Power had initially explored using Facebook as part of its online betting platform in 2013, but discontinued the endeavor\u00a0in December 2014, when the platform just didn’t convert real-money bettors as expected.<\/p>\n
But technology has evolved, as have the way users interact with their phones, tablets, and other personal screens and devices. Now, with the Facebook Messenger integration, Paddy Power clients will no longer need to download a dedicated app, or remember\u00a0the site’s SMS texting short code.<\/p>\n
What Paddy Power and Onionsack haven’t revealed are any\u00a0types of responsible gaming safeguards or ethical guidelines\u00a0that will govern the\u00a0new bot. An unlocked computer or mobile phone would seemingly be at risk should it fall into the wrong hands, as it would for banking or stock market services.<\/strong><\/p>\nAccording to the UK Gambling Commission’s Remote Technical Standards, bookmakers must clearly display the betting selections a\u00a0customer has chosen to gamble on, the bet type, and the accepted odds. But not many rules have been established yet to determine how new chatbots should or\u00a0shouldn’t behave in the world’s biggest social media space, and what will happen if a player and the bot ever want to unfriend each other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Paddy Power customers have long been able to text in their bets. But now it’s getting even\u00a0easier to connect with the Irish bookmaker, thanks to a new chatbot program for Facebook Messenger. Onionsack, a texting app developer that already works with many leading UK sportsbooks, including Ladbrokes and William Hill, debuted its\u00a0new capabilities with Messenger […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":50784,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,61,16,1074],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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