The last few weeks has seen the rise of a series of tools that take content recommended by your Twitter network and presents it in a newspaper-style format. Your network takes on the role of an editor.

Twittertim.es is the first instance that I discovered. It assembles content tweeted by your personal network and friends-of-a-friend network to create a crude web page summary. Stories are promoted based on how many times they have been tweeter.

Paper.il uses the metaphor of a print deadline to generate an online newspaper that is emailed to you once a day. Content is organised using semantic analysis into difference sections such as media, business and technology.

Flipboard is an application launched three weeks ago for the iPad. It collates articles, images and videos from URLs and organises them into a beautiful electronic newspaper that squeezes every bit of graphic and navigation functionality out of the iPad.

And to prove the point that my Twitter network has become my personal editor, here’s a story that I received via my network yesterday (via @markpinsent) from Mashable about how news consumption is shifting to personalised news streams.