Is Twitter a big threat to newspapers

With newspspers quickly becoming known as "history papers", online media in many forms is challenging the way people get their news and information. Now they are pondering if Twitter can become and even bigger threat. Granted in 140 letters it may be hard to tell a detailed story, BUT it still is enough to cause an effect and spoil a newspspers scoop. You can even get the items we publish on this site right as they are published by following Big Wheel on Twitter  twitter.com/bigwheelmag