On Wednesday and Thursday, Twitter’s internal Slack channel was abruptly shut down. Platformer reported that the company manually stopped the service. Before that was confirmed, her Twitter employee, who posted on anonymous workplace chat app Blind, stopped paying her Slack bill, speculating that Twitter may have also shut down employee access. was doing.
Whatever the reason for Twitter’s decision to remove access to Slack, it’s been a highly unproductive work day for some Twitter employees who suddenly can’t communicate, Platformer reports. increase. The employee lost access to her Slack and Jira at the same time. Jira is the tracking software used by Platformer engineers to ship code and monitor the progress of new features. Some just decided to take a break instead of being ready to be “hardcore”. Other employees had two days off.
Apparently, Twitter told employees that the Slack channel was down for “scheduled maintenance,” but a Slack employee told Platformer it was “bullshit.”
“There is no such thing as ‘scheduled maintenance,’” said a Slack employee.
A Slack spokesperson confirmed to Ars that Slack has not deactivated Twitter workspaces or user accounts.
Slack rarely shuts down services for maintenance. If any scheduled maintenance was scheduled, Slack will document it here and the app will track the status of various incidents reported on the platform.
Twitter could not be reached immediately for comment.
Why is Twitter shutting down Slack?
Twitter CEO Elon Musk may be looking for ways to cut costs or testing other internal communication tools. Platformer suggested that Musk may be looking to replace his Slack with tools used by Tesla engineers, such as Mattermost and Microsoft’s Teams.
For Twitter employees, losing Slack could add to the pain of losing much of their legacy knowledge of the platform during mass layoffs. According to Platformer, one employee who was stuck after an initial layoff searched Slack for answers to questions after losing access to so many co-workers and found a solution “99% of the time.” says.
Slack was also where many of our employees said goodbye. An employee under Musk says he is reluctant to use Slack to share insights and opinions on how to improve his Twitter. If Slack is permanently disabled, it could mark the end of an era when employee opinions seemed to be held in higher esteem by the company. Platformer said at least one of her employees (speaking on anonymous workplace chat app Blind) said deactivating Slack was “the last straw of the proverb” to encourage them to start job hunting. ‘ said it was.
Big advertising agency backs Twitter’s stability
Twitter’s decline in productivity raises concerns that the platform will become unstable, and these concerns do not appear to be unfounded. According to Platformer, earlier this month Twitter had a global outage, then the Super Bowl, and just yesterday he had a 20-minute outage in Asia.
Some have speculated that the outage may keep advertisers shying away from Twitter, but AdAge said today that major advertising agency WPP made a rare endorsement of Twitter’s stability, prompting some ads We reported that Lord is reassessing the benefits of doing business with Twitter.
WPP CEO Mark Reid told Bloomberg TV yesterday: I think clients are starting to think about how they can get him back on Twitter,” he reports AdAge.
AdAge marks a significant reversal in WPP’s stance on Twitter after it urged advertisers to exit Twitter last November, reports AdAge.
Musk determines which team communication tools best support Twitter through new features and rapid updates to support them. recently announced The algorithm’s move to open sourcing will probably happen next week, but Musk seems pleased that at least advertisers seem to expect the platform to remain stable all the while. Musk confirmed his AdAge report directly on Twitter today, commenting on its endorsement by WPP. Tweet“That’s great to hear!”
