A Twist On Collaborative Communication

I thought that I had seen them all. But something as simple as creating multiple threads within a channel was bright enough to justify the development of yet another tool. It truly does help keep you focused and ignore the noise from the content you seek. Its search features are great with more variables to choose from than one can desire. And it's integration with my favorite To-Do list (ToDoist), this pretty much puts the icing on the cake.

Pros

At first glance, Twist looks very familiar to its competitors. But upon closer examination, it has some significant improvements over them. For starters, it has a very sophisticated search engine that goes beyond basic searches in the threaded conversations. With all the power of its competitors, it keeps much of the noise inherent in collaborative communication tools to a very low minimum.

How does Twist keep conversations better organized? It uses channels and threads. Unlike competitors who are setup for a long thread in a channel, Twist lets you create channels with multiple threads to isolate relevant conversations into individual threads. This helps cut down on the noise a little and allows you to keep an eye on the thread with more importance.

Another cool feature is its integration to their ToDoist product. You can add conversations as To-Do or Tasks in ToDoist right from Twist. Need to integrate with other applications? This is simple, too. Choose from a hand full of their existing application integrations, or Zapier, which adds hundreds more to the list.

Twist is very easy to setup and very easy to use. If you have ever used a collaborative communication tool in the past, you got this.

Cons

Could not find a Con I could speak on behalf of. With a free test account to start with, all the features known to collaborative communication tools, and a few perks that keeps the noise down... Twist truly has not Cons.

Great teamwork product

Pros

I am so enthusiastic about Twist, it's really great. The general idea behind it is that it accomplishes what something like Slack does, but it is designed to not get in the way of work actually getting done. The topic threading is extremely well done, and administering a team through it seems very simple and intuitive, from my experience (I've been using it to organize a 3 person team for a couple of months).

Twist has focused their design choices on actual productivity, and makes it easy to get back to conversations on your own schedule, without having to be online 24-7 to make sure you didn't miss anything important in a conversation. The search function, in my somewhat limited experience, is extremely good and useful.

It also seems to be more affordable than something like Slack although I am not using the paid version yet (the project I'm using it for is informal and not funded atm), but mostly I just find that using it is much less stressful than other options I've used for team communication.

Cons

While this isn't really a technical problem, Twist still isn't the default communication app, so you can't just use this for anything you want, and you have to try to convert people to using it. In my case, I was setting up a new project and just told everyone we were giving it a try, and the reaction was very positive once they used it, however getting your team to buy into using it could be a problem.

Helps with managing projects using Threads

Pros

Twist is one of the best communication tool. It helps with creating new threads for each new projects. We can add different team members to different projects. Managing communication is easier in Twist as it stores all data into the cloud database. All contacts can be stored and personal messages can be sent.

Great communication and chatting application

Pros

Twist is a new product in the market yet but helps a lot with communicating with friends. It has great features like integrating with google documents.

Cons

Helps with sending quick messages. Allow people to join our channels to be part of a discussion. team members can be invited and added to various channels.

Helps with collaboration

Pros

Twist helps me with collaborating with my team members for various important discussions. It helps creating channels and discussion panels.

Cons

User interface is easy but sometimes the messages does not deliver immediately. Seems the issue with latest version of Twist.

Fantastic for contractors/freelancers/project managers

Outstanding! I am a very sensitive, focused, sensible, and accommodating contractor with my clients and team members. Twist has helped me to set healthy boundaries with them.

Pros

I love the fact that I am able to focus on my work without getting interrupted by any notifications. I am very disciplined with my time and I get bothered by unexpected notifications or random questions from colleagues. With Twist it requires users to create threads for any topic/questions - it makes the user think though and post an organized question that is though through and tag only people to it is addressed to. I moved from Slack to Twist and I don't regret it. I am super thankful for this platform help me to create a more sensible work environment.

Cons

EMOJIs :) Although I understand that Twist has purposely limited the emoji options for users not to be distracted. But that is the only thing I miss. Perhaps I will get used to it.

Twist helps with internal communication

Pros

Twist has been a good tool for our team to manage internal communications. It helps sending text messages as well as google documents on the chat. We can create threads for projects based on a project name. history for the chat can be maintained easily.

Cons

It has a very clean UI. The mobile app works great and provides email notification everyday for activities.

Twist helps me sending project information to design team

Great tool for communication (Especially on messaging, chat etc.)

Pros

Twist helps me communicating with our design team. It helps sending quick messages and keeps a history of messages. I can refer back to Twist when i need to see old messages.

Cons

It does not have any issue and works faster. It provides easy to use interface and helps communicating to team members.

YES! Slack but BETTER!

All the benefits of a chat app, none of the confusion and distraction. LOVE IT.

Pros

What I LOVE about Twist is that the conversations are THREADED!

Other chat apps like the big one every knows about Slack are like big open real-time chat rooms. It's hard to go back to something that was talked about before or to catch up on a project that was talked about when you weren't logged on (say, if you work different hours than the rest of the team)

All these other chat apps act like they're a replacement for email. But they don't quite replace it all.

ENTER TWIST.

If you've ever used another chat app, like Slack, it's pretty much just like it, EXCEPT inside the channel, there's another layer of organization! So, inside the "Upcoming Live Event" channel, instead of everything in one fat pile, you can have a "food vendors" thread, an "emcee selection" thread, and a "t-shirt designs" thread.

Cons

I really wish the free tier was more generous. It's limited by time (keeps messages for 1 month) instead of number of messages (most recent 10,000 for example) so it ends up pressuring teams to purchase or abandon pretty quickly (which may or may not be a bad thing?)

Good team communication tool with additional functionality to be more effective and productive.

Team communication is much cleaner than other alternatives. It's still in it's infancy in terms of development, but they seem to have gotten off on the right foot.

Pros

A clean user interface. Clarity between threads and messages. Easily create teams (groups) or send messages to individuals. Add emojis/reactions to comments/threads/messages. @mentions allow for lightweight notifications and communication. #tags make it easy to find common topics. Decisions and Tasks/Actions make it easy to see action items and be able to look back to see why you did what you did. Guest User accounts allow for collaboration with temporary team members (perhaps someone with another company that you are partnering with). The price is one of the most competitive in the market, especially for the features. Integration with Todoist allows you to take your action items outside of the chat environment into more of a task-oriented environment.

Cons

Twist is a relatively new software solution so the number of integrations is lacking, but the product is supported by a strong company so it is only a matter of time before they build their market share, build new integrations, and attract more 3rd parties to develop their own integrations.

The calmer option to slack

Pros

Twist lets you follow work topics in a more calm, less real time than other tools. Which might work for your organization, I really liked the ability to create channels where more focused conversations can surge. Since it is not a chat, people tend to be more concise and focused on their messages, which is great.

Cons

It's not the easiest tool to grasp an idea on, it takes time to adjust your brain from real time communication to this threaded version.

Competes well with Slack

Pros

Twist competes with Slack because if the functionality it provides. The thread concept works great for Twist and that is better than Slack,

Cons

The notification system on the phone needs improvement as sometimes we do not get timely notifications.

Twist is better than slack with team collaboration.

Efficient with organising threads thus making work easier and great with sharing files and messages. Great with team collaboration ensuring the projects is completed on time.

Pros

Intuitive user interface.
Efficient with organising of the threads.
Easy to create different channels for different projects.

Cons

Twist is better than slack but is can be pricey for small business.

Not bad for a messaging app for our organization

I like it.

Pros

We use this as a messaging app for our global organization. I like the simpleness that it has. It is a straightforward app, with no flare of other tools... you post messages with links or attachments to channels or groups or private. You can see your entire team and message anybody. So this is very helpful to use for organizations that have teams in different countries.

Cons

The Ui is sometimes complicated. You have your threads and the messages. On the channels there are conversations... so it is complicated just to determine who are you talking too...
Also you should use a bit of colors for the messages that are pending to read... something.

Good product — still not perfect

Pros

I really like the design of threads. I believe this is the correct solution to communication. I don't like how Slack organise that and I believe that Twist is better on that.

Cons

The software is still an early release. There are some features are not perfect, or missing, or not implemented. They are releasing new features often but there is still a lot to do!