Another way of looking at it is how will it feel once it’s scaled? 

One bot is novel and interesting, but imo mostly a fad. When the whole feed has inevitably been overrun by bots the hype will be gone. 

Same thing happened with tipping, and like you said trading card apps

I think we’ll see a bifurcation. Bots will mostly talk to bots (at an extremely high rate), people will mostly talk to people, and once in a while there will be some overlap.

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The English language is such a bad API though, why wouldn’t we just use better specified (ie. normal) APIs for bot<>bot interaction?

Well, over HTTP but using previously specified interfaces

Like if I want my personal bot to talk to a bot that's booking airline tickets, I'd rather my personal bot just hit the expedia API

You might also be thinking about other use cases that I'm not considering

Like HTTP or websockets?

I think there is benefit to having it be public.