Some Twitter employees stopped working after the company's Slack went down, report says

• Twitter's company Slack went down on Wednesday and Thursday, Platformer reported.
• Employees were told that it was because of routine maintenance, per the publication.
• A Slack employee told Platformer, however, that there was no such thing as routine maintenance.

Twitter's company Slack was reportedly shut down, leaving some employees struggling to communicate at work.

On Wednesday, the company's private channel-based messaging platform was shut off for what employees were told was routine maintenance, Platformer reported. Workers were also told the company was implementing a deployment freeze, per the publication.

Jira, a software important to Twitter's engineers, also stopped working on Wednesday, leading most of them to take the day off, per Platformer. Twitter's Jira was back up and running on Thursday but Slack was not and employees who didn't communicate over email essentially had another day off, per the report.

Citing a person familiar with the situation, Platformer reported that Twitter's Slack was not under maintenance but manually shut down by someone at Twitter. The reason for the shutdown was not immediately apparent.

A Slack employee told Platformer there is "no such thing as routine maintenance. That's bullshit."

Twitter did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment made outside normal working hours.

At Tesla, one of Musk's other companies, employees use Mattermost and Microsoft instead of Slack for business communication, per Platformer.

Since acquiring the company in October, Musk has been on a mission to cut costs. The billionaire has cut thousands of staff and reportedly stopped paying rent for some of Twitter's offices. According to Fortune, an expensive Salesforce software that Twitter employees use to track problems with the platform could be cut.