(Reuters) - Slack Technologies Inc said on Monday some of it users were facing faulty performance on its workplace messaging platform, which is widely used by employees working remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic. "Some users may be unable to connect to Slack, while others are seeing general performance issues," Slack said in a tweet here, adding that it was investigating the problem. Earlier in the day, outage tracking website Downdetector.com recorded downdetector.com/status/slack more than 1,700 incidents of people reporting issues with Slack. The app, which competes with Microsoft’s Teams, has more than 130,000 paid customers on its platform, as of September.