Gun control is but a single staging arena among many for such tactics, but an important one where the outcome will reflect much about what the future has in store for us and future generations.
Some skulking around the future App Store layout from 9to5 Mac reader Sonny Dickson has shown an as yet unreleased Twitter 4.3 release carrying "more interactive experiences" for links within certain posts -- in other words, expect a multimedia extravaganza if a friend really digs that New York Times article.