When I was back in school, around 2007&#x2F;2008, I remember reading one of those &#x27;future-of-work&#x27; type articles where the author went on about how teams of the near future were going to keep each other updated via Twitter. Given the early direction of the product, it seemed like a foregone conclusion.<p>&quot;@devTeam @productTeam @PMNameHere Currently building out remaining API endpoints. Complete by standup tomorrow #productName&quot;<p>It feels like Slack ate what should have been Twitter&#x27;s lunch. I don&#x27;t understand why they didn&#x27;t push harder in this direction.