Twitter Is Planning A Newsletter Service…And Other Small Business Tech News

(Photo Illustration by Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Here are five things in technology that happened this past week and how they affect your business. Did you miss them?  1 —Twitter acquired a newsletter company. This past week, Twitter announced that it acquired the newsletter company Revue. With newsletters skyrocketing in popularity, Twitter is making strides to keep up with social media platforms who currently permit their users to make money based off of their followers. Twitter has been working to acquire more start-ups over the last couple of months in an effort to broaden what they offer and make up the revenue lost from advertising dollars since the start of the pandemic. (Source: NY Times) Why this is important for your business: As a Twitter user, I like this! It would be great to capitalize on my following and send outbound emails with educational information to those that opt-in. Other small businesses and entrepreneurs may also feel the same. If done the right way, this could be a great marketing option…and something I’d pay for. 2 — Plastiq announced the first end-to-end Intuit QuickBooks online integration in the payments industry.    Plastiq announced that Intuit QuickBooks…
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