By John Gruber
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Kayvon Beykpour and Mike Park, writing on the Twitter blog:
To jumpstart our efforts, Twitter has acquired Revue, a service that makes it free and easy for anyone to start and publish editorial newsletters. Revue will accelerate our work to help people stay informed about their interests while giving all types of writers a way to monetize their audience — whether it’s through the one they built at a publication, their website, on Twitter, or elsewhere. […]
Starting today, we’re making Revue’s Pro features free for all accounts and lowering the paid newsletter fee to 5%, a competitive rate that lets writers keep more of the revenue generated from subscriptions.
Substack charges 10 percent, so this gives Revue a leg up on that front. The path forward for Twitter seems obvious:
This seems rather obvious, and a good idea, so I’m sure Twitter won’t do it.
★ Tuesday, 26 January 2021