[terrykohla]

When you read a newspaper (a thing of the past) you read headlines. If a headline catches your eye, you read the heading/intro, if you're still curious you read the article. Twitter has allowed to converge all the headlines that might interest you into a single real time inbox, not only from newspapers but from whoever or whatever you're interested in. If there is more depth than a simple headline, there will usually be link to an article/video/photo/etc where you can dig into more info about that headline. It's the revolution of "NEWS" and everyone can broadcast or share/refer what they think it's "interesting".