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 to be able to consolidate our communications round incidents and focus sources on these most generally utilized by our clients,” Kevin Albers, VP of buyer expertise at Slack, mentioned in a press release 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 superb account to watch with TweetDeck — which is now referred to as XPro and is just accessible to paying X Premium subscribers.) If you wish to maintain tabs on Slack’s standing shifting ahead, Albers pointed to Slack’s fundamental standing web page and mentioned that “we’re additionally completely happy to reply any questions associated to incidents from our fundamental account, @SlackHQ.” It’s also possible to get alerts by subscribing to Slack’s RSS and Atom feeds.

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