The acquisition comes as Twitter recently named a new chief
executive Parag Agrawal to replace co-founder Jack Dorsey, who stepped down
from the top role last week. Agrawal, who had served as chief technology
officer, is expected to bring a greater focus on engineering to the company.
Slack, owned by Salesforce, has become a common online
workplace messaging tool used by many companies. Quill emerged as a possible
competitor for the messaging app this year.
The Quill team will help Twitter improve its direct
messaging tool and make it a "more useful & expressive way people can
have conversations on the service," said Nick Caldwell, Twitter's general
manager for core technology, in a tweet on Tuesday.
Excited to share that today we're welcoming @QuillChat to
Twitter! ????????????????????????
— Nick Caldwell???????? (@nickcald) December 7, 2021
Quill said in a blog post that its service will shut down as the team integrates into Twitter. © Reuters