I was just about to come here and mention Micro.blog, and I'm impressed someone beat me to it. :) Of course, you can do it for even more cheaply than that if yo

I was just about to come here and mention Micro.blog, and I'm impressed someone beat me to it. :) Of course, you can do it for even more cheaply than that if you're a bit technically savvy and willing to put in the effort. I like the idea of newsletters, but they strike me as a different kind of solution. Micro.blog is a great compromise between being Twitter-like and still allowing longer blog posts. (And still cross-posting to Twitter, to boot). It's also worth noting that version 3 of the Ghost blogging platform has a newsletter system integrated into it, so if you fall into the "a bit technically savvy and willing to put in the effort" category, you can use that to put together a newsletter for less than $30 a month. And if you want a newsletter but still want someone else to take care of it for you, there's Substack, which lets you publish newsletters for free and, if you want to go paid, charges 10% plus credit card processing fees, which may end up working out to be cheaper than $30 a month for a lot of low-volume folks. (My own Microblog: https://micro.coyotetracks.org https://micro.coyotetracks.org)