Cool. I've just started reading magazines on my Nexus 7, they can do some really nifty stuff when they optimize them! Embedded videos, scrollable articles, etc. Etc.
How will it be see years from now when twitter is no longer this big?
Then they'll say that twitter was big then and that was the reason why we did it. There's tons of covers that are related to the media of that time. Doesn't really need to be answered to.
People had newspapers first then radios came along which was a faster way of getting news. TV came along which was as fast but gave you visuals too. Now we have social media which is faster than all of those forms of media by a lot too. I mean, Twitter found out about the Osama bin Laden death about 10 mins before CNN reported it.