“We’re not blind to what’s happening,” Benioff said, noting the difficulty of a call where Salesforce touted “perhaps the best quarter it has ever had in its history” while acknowledging “the grim things that are happening in the world.”īenioff noted that his great-grandfather, Isaac Benioff, was an immigrant from Kyiv, Ukraine, to the U.S. Salesforce executives reported the company’s fiscal 2022 fourth-quarter and full-year results Tuesday on a conference call with analysts where co-CEO Marc Benioff took note of the contrast between the good news of the company’s quarterly results and the “grim and uncertain times” of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Due to these issues though, the company's engineers ended up taking the day off according to Platformer.Cloud application giant Salesforce reported a blockbuster fourth quarter to close out its fiscal 2022 with revenue growth getting a boost from customers’ digital transformation initiatives and accelerating sales of the Slack collaboration application Salesforce acquired in mid-2021. Jira, a project management and bug tracking tool, did eventually return after Twitter employees were unable to access the app all Wednesday. After layoffs at Twitter, the remaining workers were able to go back to those old conversations and troubleshoot issues when the employee with the relevant knowledge was no longer with the company. Slack chat histories are saved and provide a convenient way to go back and reference old information. As one current Twitter employee mentioned, Slack is also a very important knowledge base tool. Slack is a piece of communications software used by many online companies. The outlet's sources at Twitter confirmed that the latency and outage issues line up with what the company sees internally as well.Īnd Twitter users should strap in for more issues ahead as the report also details more cost-cutting measures just this week, as workers at Twitter have been unable to access tools like Slack and Jira.

Elon Musk attempts to debunk reporters but Twitter's own data proves him wrongĪccording to Platformer (Opens in a new tab), public data from latency tracking tool Singlepane found that Twitter has been 'slowly degrading' since Musk cut (Opens in a new tab) the company's data center in Sacramento.

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