Twitter Acquires and Shuts Down Slack Competitor Quill

Twitter has purchased and shut down Quill, a messaging platform that rivaled Slack. The service has immediately ceased its operations and plans to delete all of its data come Saturday, December 11.Designed for workplace communications. Quill emerged earlier this year as a Slack alternative with a few additional tools built-in.As part of the acquisition, the Quill team will join Twitter to work on its messaging features, especially its DMs.In his announcement of the acquisition on the app, Twitte...