10 years ago this week, Jack Dorsey sent out the first ever tweet, “Just setting up my Twttr.” Today, that’s seen as one of the moments that ushered in social media revolution. 

But here we are in 2016, and sites like Buzzfeed still rely a ton on an “old fashioned” technology to spread its messages. I’m talking about email. 

Today, Buzzfeed gets as much website traffic from its email newsletters as it does from ALL the links on Twitter. 

Email, it’s the past and the future of digital distribution. In recent years, Mailchimp and Tinyletter have been leading the way at popularizing and breathing new life into email, and now there are new players getting into the email distribution game. Like Revue, which you are reading right now.  

If you want to create an email digest, Revue is dead simple. You can hook up your social feeds and even import an email list and voila! You’re good to go. 

I’m using the free version here. If I upgrade to the paid plan for $5 to $25 a month, I can use a custom header, control the layout and have more subscribers. 

I kept this pretty simple for my first attempt. I added this text, uploaded a GIF and imported a bunch of Medium articles from my Facebook feed (I share a LOT of Medium articles on my Facebook feed.) 

Easy as 1-2-3.