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TECH T@LK

Slack retires its X account about updates and outages

OUR BUREAU Meanwhile, according to The
Verge, On Tesla’s Q3 earnings call,
San Francisco, CA
CEO Elon Musk said people who
lack is retiring its status account work from home take advantage of
on X that previously shared up- the people who cannot work from
Sdates about issues and outages home and are “detached from real-
on the platform, the company an- ity.” In the middle of talking about
nounced on Thursday. “We made the rising interest rates and their effect
decision to retire the @SlackStatus on the affordability of vehicles, Musk
account in order to consolidate our launched into a discussion about
communications around incidents “Marie Antoinette” vibes of the per-
and focus resources on those most son he describes asking why doesn’t
widely used by our customers,” Kevin everyone work from home.
Albers, VP of customer experience “Like... what about all the peo-
at Slack, said in a statement to The ple that have to come to the factory
Verge. and and build the cars? What about
The account was a useful way all of the people that have to go to to
to be notified when Slack was in- the restaurant and make your food,
vestigating problems, especially for also happy to answer any questions mex account private and began tell- and deliver your food? It’s like, what
those of us at The Verge who end related to incidents from our main ing customers it was inactive as early are you talking about...”
up writing about those issues. (It was account, @SlackHQ.” You can also as August 1st. Air France, according Musk carried on, saying “Why
also a good account to monitor with get alerts by subscribing to Slack’s to an April message, no longer does did I sleep in the factory so many
TweetDeck — which is now called RSS and Atom feeds, according to customer service over X direct mes- times? Because it mattered,” refer-
XPro and is only available to paying The Verge. sages “since Twitter has changed ring to lowering the costs of a Tesla.
X Premium subscribers.) If you want their conditions” (perhaps referring He’d been asked how he thought
to keep tabs on Slack’s status moving Other companies have also reduced to X’s API pricing tiers it implement- about price elasticity in the current
forward, Albers pointed to Slack’s their investment in X. American Ex- ed earlier this year), according to macroenvironment, according to
main status page and said that “we’re press, for example, made its @AskA- The Verge. The Verge report.

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