"Swiping for the next article is derived from a strong print metaphor in many content apps. In fact, this metaphor is so strong that you can't even tap a headline on the "cover" page to jump to the corresponding article. The iPad offers no homepages, even though users strongly desired homepage-like features in our testing. (They also often wanted search, which was typically not provided.)

In electronic media, the linear concept of "next article" makes little sense. People would rather choose for themselves where to go, selecting from a menu of related offerings.

Here's where we get to the more meta-journalist stuff. AFP claims that Twitter's Terms of Service allows third parties to republish any materials posted to Twitter. That's wrong, in the first place, but even more damning is that Morel didn't upload the photos to Twitter–he uploaded them to TwitPic, which is not owned by Twitter in any way, and which has its own terms of service that clearly say "all images are copyright their respective owners."