Some Twitter employees stopped working after the company's Slack went down, report says
Twitter's company Slack was reportedly shut down, leaving some employees struggling to communicate at work.
On Wednesday, the company's private channel-based messaging platform was shut off for what employees were told was routine maintenance,. Workers were also told the company was implementing a deployment freeze, per the publication. Jira, a software important to Twitter's engineers, also stopped working on Wednesday, leading most of them to take the day off, per Platformer. Twitter's Jira was back up and running on Thursday but Slack was not and employees who didn't communicate over email essentially had another day off, per the report.
Citing a person familiar with the situation, Platformer reported that Twitter's Slack was not under maintenance but manually shut down by someone at Twitter. The reason for the shutdown was not immediately apparent.Twitter did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment made outside normal working hours.
At Tesla, one of Musk's other companies, employees use Mattermost and Microsoft instead of Slack for business communication, per Platformer.
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