Twitter has acquired Slack-like messaging app Quill with an eye fixed towards enhancing messaging providers, together with direct messages, the corporate introduced Tuesday. In a tweet thread announcing the deal, Nick Caldwell, basic supervisor for core tech at Twitter, described Quill as a “fresher, more deliberate way to communicate. We’re bringing their experience and creativity to Twitter as we work to make messaging tools like DMs a more useful & expressive way people can have conversations on the service.”

Quill will shut down, however its crew will be a part of Twitter’s Experience org. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. A farewell blog post on Quill’s updates website offered directions for customers who wish to export their crew message histories, which can be obtainable till 1PM PT on December eleventh. At that time, Quill can be turning off its servers and deleting all information. Active clients can be issued full refunds, the corporate stated.

“Together with Twitter, we will continue to pursue our original goal — to make online communication more thoughtful, and more effective, for everyone,” the weblog submit reads.

Quill made its official launch in February, billing itself as “messaging for people that focus.” It was based by Ludwig Pettersson, former artistic director of funds processing platform Stripe. Pettersson can be becoming a member of Twitter’s Conversations crew beneath Oji Udezue.

The platform was constructed for work conversations however with controls over a few of the options that make Slack a distracting time suck. Its structured channels allowed for extra centered conversations than the standard reverse chron chat thread, and message threads may very well be break up and moved into separate conversations.