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Re:Slack Is Raising $250M from SoftBank, Others by ThomPete on Thursday July 27, 2017 @05:11AM (#14863689)
As far as I remember it started as that. But maybe that's not accurate. I just remember them pushing how twitter could be monitored and then important tweets could be send around the organization to deal with them.
Re:Slack Is Raising $250M from SoftBank, Others by distances on Thursday July 27, 2017 @05:27AM (#14863745)
That feature is a flow (or channel) specific "inbox". You can add different sources such as e-mail, GitHub pushes, CI results, or the Twitter you mentioned. Basically looks like an in-channel RSS feed of different sources. Personally I love the feature.

A neat thing is that you can start a discussion thread from any of these items, so the context of the discussion is clear.

Re:Slack Is Raising $250M from SoftBank, Others by ThomPete on Thursday July 27, 2017 @05:32AM (#14863762)
Oh I like FlowDock a lot was just trying to explain how I believe Slack won over it by being less opinionated about how it approaches conversation. It's IRC core functionality and then apps on top for specific needs.

Flowdock went a little further ahead when it came to how they constructed the base communication.