Slack is retiring its standing account on X

Slack is retiring its standing account on X that beforehand shared updates about points and outages on the platform, the corporate introduced on Thursday. “We made the choice to retire the @SlackStatus account with a view to consolidate our communications round incidents and focus sources on these most generally utilized by our prospects,” Kevin Albers, VP of buyer expertise at Slack, mentioned in an announcement to The Verge.

The account was a helpful method to be notified when Slack was investigating issues, particularly for these of us at The Verge who find yourself writing about these points. (It was additionally a very good account to observe with TweetDeck — which is now referred to as XPro and is just obtainable to paying X Premium subscribers.) If you wish to maintain tabs on Slack’s standing transferring ahead, Albers pointed to Slack’s important standing web page and mentioned that “we’re additionally joyful to reply any questions associated to incidents from our important account, @SlackHQ.” You too can get alerts by subscribing to Slack’s RSS and Atom feeds.

X despatched an autoreply to my request for remark: “Busy now, please examine again later.”