Twitter might be taking on Slack by introducing business DMs
Twitter has acquired emerging Slack competitor Quill for an undisclosed sum
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Twitter has announced that it has acquired thebusiness messaging serviceQuill in a move that could enable it to take on Slack.
After raising around $16m in funding, Quill exited beta earlier this year as an alternative toSlackavailable on Windows, macOS, Linus, Android and iOS.
In anew report,TechCrunchpoints out that the company was founded by the former creative director ofStripe, Ludwig Pettersson who is well known and admired by many in the startup community.
While neither Twitter nor Quill disclosed the terms of the deal, Quill did put out anannouncementin which it informed users of its business messaging service that they will have until December 11 to export their team message data. Surprisingly though, Quill has created aPythonscript that allows users to transform their data into the CSV format so it can be imported into Slack.
Business DMs
As part of the acquisition, Quill’s staff will be joining Twitter’s Experience organization to help work on the social network’s messaging tools and direct messages while Pettersson will become a product manager reporting to the Conversations team.
Since its launch in 2006, Twitter’s direct messages orDMshave grown in popularity as a way to communicate quickly with others online and as a result, many have wondered whether the company would try to turn them into a standalone product or even a paid service for businesses.
Online collaboration toolshave become essential for businesses during the pandemic as being able to communicate with co-workers is especially important whenworking from home. Now thatSlack is part of Salesforce, organizations may be looking for an alternative business messaging service and by purchasing Quill, Twitter is in the perfect position to offer its own solution.
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We’ll have to wait and see what happens as a result of Twitter’s Quill acquisition but with a new CEO at the helm who is actively trying todiversify its business, business DMs could be a very real possibility.
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After working with the TechRadar Pro team for the last several years, Anthony is now the security and networking editor at Tom’s Guide where he covers everything from data breaches and ransomware gangs to the best way to cover your whole home or business with Wi-Fi. When not writing, you can find him tinkering with PCs and game consoles, managing cables and upgrading his smart home.
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