Twitter said on Wednesday it will shut down its Revue newsletter product next year, days after owner Elon Musk said he was open to buying rival online publishing platform Substack.
Bought the social media platform revue in 2021 for an undisclosed sum amid a larger boom for newsletters during the pandemic and because it was trying to attract users looking to monetize their followers.
At that time, Twitter had said that Revue’s premium features would be free for all users and that it would lower the paid newsletter fee to help authors retain more of the subscription revenue.
“This was a difficult decision because we know Revue has a passionate user base made up of people like you,” Twitter said in a post to users.
“We’ll get to the point: From January 18, 2023, access to your Revue account will no longer be possible. On that date Revue will be closed and all data will be deleted.”
Revue was founded seven years ago in the city of Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Last August, Twitter introduced a way for newsletter creators to add a subscribe button directly to their Twitter profiles. As of now, the Revue subscription button is only available for a test group on Android and web.
In other news, Elon Musk’s Twitter has dissolved its Trust and Safety Council, the advisory group of around 100 independent civil, human rights and other organizations the company founded in 2016 to address hate speech, child exploitation, suicide, self-harm and other issues on the platform.
