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Twitter is shutting down Revue their newsletter platform

Andrew Baisden on December 14, 2022

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Jean-Michel πŸ•΅πŸ»β€β™‚οΈ Fayard • Edited

Awful decision.

Adding insult to the injury, instead of apologizing for wasting your time, putting the pressure of urgency on you, jeopardizing your paid subscriptions, not to mention legal risks, basically "you are on your own", they want to be congratulated for their courage to take a "hard decision".

Elon Musk basically treats content creators like he treats his employees : super badly.

Lesson learned: never trust Twitter as a content creator.

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leob • Edited

Musk doesn't care about anyone other than Musk, even when he wants us to believe otherwise.

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Paul Knulst

I got this mail too. Luckily, I don't have any subscriber on revue. I used revue only to enable subscribing to my blog through Twitter (thanks to Zapier it was very easy).

I run my own Ghost blog that has inbuilt subscriptions with a Stripe connection. So I am safe and will never have to think about this problem.

For sending my Newsletter I use Mailgun because it can be easily added to Ghost. Also, Mailgun has a Flex plan where I am allowed to send 1000 mails for free every month.

That is enough to send 3 posts per month to my subscribers. And if I reach the limit it only costs 1$ per 1000 mails.

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Shai Almog

Damn I didn't get that email. That's soon. Lucky I'm on dev.to!

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Jones Zachariah Noel

I was also evaluating other platforms. Why haven't you considered Substack in the list of alternatives?

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Andrew Baisden

I updated the list and added Substack.

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PaweΕ‚ ŚwiΔ…tkowski

I was also wondering about that. Substack seems like a more proper alternative to Revue than Mailchimp.

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Andrew Baisden

It's on the list now I have not used it so I did not know much about it.

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Thomas Bnt

For an alternative you have also buttondown.email !

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Andrew Baisden

Cool, this one is new to me.

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Erin Bensinger

Dang! Sorry your preferred newsletter service is shutting down. I'm curious, have you looked into Substack or Ghost?

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Andrew Baisden

I haven't tried either of them but I have heard of them. It's nice to know that we have options.

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Pavan Belagatti

I am not able to login to my Twitter account now because I am not receiving the 2FA code to my phone. I don't know what Twitter is up to.