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Twitter steals from Slack

Gizmodo is a part of a “Slack and Gmail company” as opposed to a “Microsoft Teams and Outlook company,” like my previous job. In shifting from Teams to Slack, I have become obsessed with Slack statuses, where users can signal what they’re up to using an emoji and a brief line of text. It’s a pretty nifty feature, and Twitter is testing out their own version of it.

Status updates on Twitter will appear as an emoji and a brief line of text (see above) added to a Tweet from a pre-determined list. Examples range from potentially useful like “⚠Spoiler alert,” to more utilitarian like “✈Traveling”, to incredibly cheugy like “🍄Unpopular opinion.” On a platform where you can literally say what’s on your mind, why would you need a status to do it for you?

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