Subscribe on Twitter: Your reactions

Hi there,

Hope you’re having a great week! You may have noticed I sent an extra newsletter issue to you last Thursday, announcing a new feature we’re rolling out…

We’re pretty excited about it, and I wanted to take this time to highlight some of your responses and address your questions. Let’s dive in.

So glad you asked! We’re rolling out a way for people on Twitter to subscribe to a Revue newsletter directly from the creator’s Twitter profile. Here’s how it will look:

Pretty neat. And lots of you have been in touch to let me know how smooth it was to enable the feature — that’s what we like to hear! Check out this step-by-step guide for an explainer on how to set it up.

We received lots of great feedback directly by email, and even more on Twitter.

We’ve had messages from people who are excited to see how this feature can help them grow, and some who feel inspired to get back into the newsletter flow after some time out of the game:

I speak from experience when I say coming back issue after issue to write a newsletter can be a daunting thing — especially if you’ve taken a few weeks off. We’re delighted that this feature has inspired some of you to get back into it, and we’re so happy with the positive feedback.

We also noted that a few of your messages focused on distribution and helping creators reach their audience at various points in the subscriber journey:

All creators, whether they’re running big newsletters or smaller ones, want to make sure they’re reaching their potential audience in the best way possible. It doesn’t stop here. We’ll keep building tools that you want and need — and keep letting us know when we’re going in the right (or wrong!) direction. We’re building with you ✨

While it’s always nice to hear from people who are fans of the new feature, we also really appreciate constructive criticism, and we listen when you tell us things aren’t clear or could be improved upon.

For those of you asking for the limited test group to be rolled out more widely: We absolutely understand that this feature will only become more powerful when more people on Twitter can see it, and we’re actively working on bringing it to more people, including those using iOS.

Some of you have also grabbed this opportunity to let us know what you wish we would work on next — and we love that. All of your ideas and feature requests are fed back directly to the product team, and while we can’t do everything for everyone at once, this plays a critical part in our planning. It’s especially exciting when we see a number of people requesting the same feature, so it’s always worth letting us know what would make your life easier on Revue.

For now, let’s move on to an example of a creator using Revue in inspiring ways…

We really like what Kyle Petzinger is doing with his newsletter, The Monday 6. Each week, Kyle pulls together six areas of discussion from around the internet that are useful, funny, or interesting — and every issue is guaranteed to offer something that sparks your interest. There’s a great variety of topics in there — from nuclear fusion to a video of an inconceivably rad orangutan. Check it out below!

There’s a lot going on in the newsletter world at the moment. Stay up to date by perusing the next section…

Thanks for joining me this week. I’d love to hear if you have any further feedback or questions — feel free to get in touch by replying to this email.

Until next time,

Anna