What is an active contact in ManyChat?

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An active contact is any person who interacts with your automation during the billing month: comments your keyword, taps a button in a flow, replies to a Story, or messages your account. It counts people, not messages, so ten thousand commenters on one post is ten thousand active contacts.
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