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 as a way 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, stated in a press release to The Verge.

The account was a helpful approach 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 an excellent account to watch with TweetDeck — which is now referred to as XPro and is simply accessible to paying X Premium subscribers.) If you wish to hold tabs on Slack’s standing transferring ahead, Albers pointed to Slack’s important standing web page and stated that “we’re additionally glad to reply any questions associated to incidents from our important account, @SlackHQ.” You may also get alerts by subscribing to Slack’s RSS and Atom feeds.

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