Twitter Inc said that it acquired Slack competitor Quill to help the social networking company improve its own messaging tools.
Agrawal, who had served as a chief technology officer, is going to bring a greater focus on engineering to the company.
The decision to acquire came after Twitter recently named a new chief executive Parag Agrawal to replace co-founder Jack Dorsey, who stepped down from the role recently.
Slack is owned by Salesforce and has become a common online workplace messaging too used by many companies.
The Quill human resources will assist Twitter enhance its direct messaging software and make it a “extra helpful & expressive means folks can have conversations on the service,” said Nick Caldwell, Twitter’s general manager for core technology.
Quill comes out as a possible competitor for the messaging app this year.
Slack, owned by Salesforce, has become a popular and common online workplace messaging tool that is used by many companies.