Another thing that I love about Twist compared to Slack is that there is no online presence indicator, this way I can read my messages whenever I want and decide what to do with them. I don’t know about you, but “calmly catch up” sounds great for an introvert remote worker like me.
The official description of the app reads: “Twist keeps all your team’s conversations on topic and in one place so everyone can calmly catch up on their own schedule.” ( Source) My personal opinion on Twist is definitely positive. Another great thing is that you don’t have to necessarily add every single team member to a channel, only those who need to be notified about that topic. In fact, one of the best features of this app is that, in addition to the traditional channels, conversations are divided by threads instead of endless chats within each channel (Slack introduced the option to reply to specific message and build threads from that, but it isn’t actually that straightforward, to be honest). The first impression I got when I landed over Twist was “this is the heaven of organized people”. In a nutshell, our small team needed something simpler and more organized.
We never managed to use most of the features provided, not to mention that we all work at different hours of the day, even if our time zones are pretty close, so knowing when someone was online, statuses and things like that were totally unnecessary for us. Don’t get me wrong, Slack is a great app with tons of awesome features, but for our small team of 3 was a bit too much, to be fair.
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