Slack is the latest company to cut back on Elon Musk's X

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Slack retired its @SlackStatus account on X, implying customers weren't using it much anymore.

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Amazon shut down a Slack channel where 2,000 employees talked about performance-improvement plans. Another one is up and running.

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Amazon shut down a Slack channel about performance-improvement plans.

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Slack Status Updates on X/Twitter Are Now a Thing of the Past

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Slack says it is shutting down its SlackStatus account on X, which alerted users of incidents and outages on the platform, Thursday night. The office messaging platform will move its incident status alerts to its website.

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Slack staffers are 'gaming' the company's training platform to speed through tasks so they can return to regular duties, sources say

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How Slack Is Integrating Generative AI After Its Redesign

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Slack Drops a Big Redesign to Change How You Chat

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Your work chats are going to look very different very soon.

3 in 5 workers try to be 'active' online even while not working, a new Slack report says

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3 in 5 workers try to be 'active' online even while not working, a new Slack report says.

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10 Things in Tech: Amazon Slack, industry extinction, and top EVs

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Phew, it's Friday, friends. I'm Diamond Naga Siu, and I just got on Jack Dorsey's new social media platform Bluesky (find me here: @diamondnagasiu.bsky.social).

Amazon employees being pushed out of the company have a little-known Slack channel. Leaked messages reveal anguish, despair, but also community.

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I've been building popular tech products like Tome since I became my family's breadwinner at 15 years old. I've learned you never know how people are going to use your creation.

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Keith Peiris is the cofounder of the buzzy multimodal storytelling tool, Tome.

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