Twitter buys would-be Slack competitor Quill | Engadget

You may not have heard of messaging service Quill, but it was positioned as a Discord- or Slack-style app for team communications that tried to be less noisy and more structured. The platform only launched this past February, but today Twitter has announce it is purchasing Quill and shutting it down this weekend. Twitter’s tech GM Nick Caldwell announced the move this morning, and Quill confirmed the news in a blog post on its own site. The fact that it’s shutting down this weekend is a stunningly fast turn-around; Quill is offering details on how to export data, which any team using it will probably want to do ASAP. (They’ll also want to go and find a new messaging service to use post-haste.)  The app had billed itself as “messaging for people that focus,” and it’s not clear how that mission will continue as part of Twitter. Caldwell said that the goal was to have the Quill team help “make messaging tools like DMs a more useful & expressive way people can have conversations.” Chances are good this is more of an acqui-hire situation, in which Twitter wanted to have the Quill team working on Twitter’s existing products. Given how…
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