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5 bots to try this week: Gyant, Flow XO, Domino’s, Christina Milian, and Botany

The logo of Gyant, a bot that diagnoses sicknesses.

Not feeling well? Exhibiting some specific symptoms? Think you’ve got the Zika virus?The Gyant health bot wants to diagnose your illness and, based on your answers, give a percentage of likelihood that you have an ulcer, the Zika virus, or a fever.

Here are the five most popular bots this past week, as they appear on Botlist.

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5. Botany

This bot connects you with random Facebook Messenger users to talk about things like sports, science, cooking, and other topics.

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Available on Messenger

4. Christina Milian

The personal bot for singer Christina Milian helps you find her latest music, get an autograph, or do Milian trivia.

Available on Messenger

Above: Domino’s Pizza Facebook Messenger bot

3. Domino’s 

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I mean does this need an introduction? You order pizza and food with it. You can now use the Domino’s Pizza bot to order food in the United States, United Kingdom, and Ireland.

Available on Messenger

2. Flow XO

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Create bots with rich media that incorporate forms, surveys, and unique push updates. Flow XO makes bots for Facebook Messenger, Slack, Telegram, and Twilio SMS.

Available on web

1. Gyant
Think you’ve got the Zika virus or some other illness? The Gyant health bot asks you a series of yes-no questions to diagnose a fever, ulcer, food poisoning, and other ailments.

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Available on Messenger

Popularity of the top 5 bots on Botlist is based on web traffic to individual bots’ pages appearing on the site, which currently lists more than 11,000 bots. The bot directory says it receives more than 200 submissions each week and tests their purpose, functionality, content, and overall quality before accepting them. This week’s rankings were for the period Sept. 26-Oct. 2, 2016.

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