Twitter acquired the Dutch newsletter service Revue in January 2021.
Revue was founded in the Netherlands in 2015 as a tool for writers, publishers, and organizations to create email newsletters and offer free or paid subscriptions. Twitter announced the acquisition on January 26, 2021, presenting Revue as a way to help writers grow their audiences and potentially earn money from their work.
The deal fit Twitter’s broader effort to become more useful to professional writers. Revue newsletters could be shared through Twitter, while the platform’s audience and discovery features offered a possible distribution channel. The acquisition also helped Twitter compete in the growing creator-newsletter market associated with services such as Substack.
A common mix-up is confusing Revue with Substack, which was an independent rival rather than Twitter’s acquisition. Twitter later announced that Revue would shut down on January 18, 2023, and that user data would be deleted. Thus, the answer refers to the service Twitter bought, not one that it merely integrated or competed with.