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 the intention 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 an announcement 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 account to watch with TweetDeck — which is now known as XPro and is barely accessible to paying X Premium subscribers.) If you wish to maintain tabs on Slack’s standing transferring ahead, Albers pointed to Slack’s primary standing web page and stated that “we’re additionally completely happy to reply any questions associated to incidents from our primary 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 verify again later.”