Social media giant Twitter has announced that it has acquired a Slack-like platform called Quill. Meanwhile, Twitter’s CEO had changed last week. Parag Agrawal became the new CEO after the resignation of the founder of the platform, Jack Dorsey. This latest acquisition came shortly after the new CEO took office.
However, Quill is essentially cited as Slack’s number one competitor. The terms of the deal with Quill, a business-oriented messaging service, are unknown.
What is Twitter planning with Quill?
The companies announced today that Twitter has acquired Quill, a competitor to Slack in the business messaging space. According to CNET’s report, the goals of social media giant Twitter are actually clear. Because it made this deal to develop its own direct messaging functionality.
Both Twitter and Quill did not disclose the specific terms of the deal. However, Quill’s statement said, “Together with Twitter, we will continue to pursue our original goal of making online communication more effective for everyone.”
In the meantime, one should not miss an important announcement. Because Quill will cease operations as part of the deal. Therefore, they have given users until December 11 to export their message histories. Then the service will be shut down and all data will be deleted from their servers.
Quill made a statement regarding the export. Accordingly, it is possible to export the messages seen by the whole team, that is, all public channels. No messages in private DMs, groups, or private channels are part of the export. Also allowed are those who want to delete their account and/or team. However, active members will also receive their cashback.
https://twitter. com/nickcald/status/1468221427354517504
Twitter’s Nick Caldwell said in a tweet that the Quill team will help speed up Twitter’s work on direct messages.
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