Twitter announced that it has closed the Revue platform, which it bought in 2021 and allows users to share. free and paid newslettersallows authors to monetize their content. It was a service that competed directly with offerings like Substack and Medium.

Twitter product manager Martijn de Kuijper explains in a message posted on www.getrevue.co that Revue will stop working on January 18, 2023. Until then, users will still be able to access their accounts. However, once the deadline is reached, the platform will delete all user data.

Goodbye Revue, hello 4,000 characters

Now that the end of Revue is near, users will have the following possibilities: download your subscriber list, newsletters and metrics published until the service is no longer available. In the case of paid newsletters, on December 20 the social network will configure all subscriptions to be canceled at the end of their cycle.

This latest move contributes to a series of changes Elon Musk has put forward for Twitter, many of which, like the new Twitter Blue, change in real time. The next change to be prepared by the employer, increase the character limit per message from the current 280 to 4,000.

A change like the one mentioned would allow longer messages to be sent, but would not include the additional tools that Revue has. In other words, it would be something very different from a newsletter. But there is little information about this possible new Twitter functionality, which has been confirmed by Musk.

Curiously, the end of Revue came shortly after Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey posted his first newsletter on the platform to express his thoughts. Thoughts on ‘Twitter Files’. “Well… in 17 hours my career as a newsletter writer is over”, aforementioned Following the news, the former CEO of Twitter was announced today.

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