Twitter stated on Tuesday it acquired Slack competitor Quill to assist the social networking firm enhance its personal messaging instruments.

The acquisition comes as Twitter lately named a brand new chief government Parag Agrawal to exchange co-founder Jack Dorsey, who stepped down from the highest position final week. Agrawal, who had served as chief know-how officer, is predicted to convey a higher give attention to engineering to the corporate.

Slack, owned by Salesforce, has turn out to be a standard on-line office messaging software utilized by many corporations. Quill emerged as a potential competitor for the messaging app this yr.

The Quill crew will assist Twitter enhance its direct messaging software and make it a “more useful & expressive way people can have conversations on the service,” stated Nick Caldwell, Twitter’s common supervisor for core know-how, in a tweet on Tuesday.

Quill stated in a blog post that its service will shut down because the crew integrates into Twitter.

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