I use Twitter to keep up efficiently with all the things I care about. I think where Twitter shines is as a very finely tuned filter for specific interests. I

I use Twitter to keep up efficiently with all the things I care about. I think where Twitter shines is as a very finely tuned filter for specific interests. I am interested in certain specific health topics. I am interested in certain tech topics. I also am interested somewhat in some niche political/economic topics but don't want to see THE BIG POLITICAL STORY OF THE DAY because that's everywhere. I have three different accounts for each of these interests. If someone crosses topics, like posts THE BIG POLITICAL STORY OF THE DAY politics in the tech or health account, and politics has been leaking into just about every social stream on the planet lately, I block the retweet source for that account or drop them if they tweet off-topic enough. So I think that's the strength of Twitter right now vs all the other social sites: With some work you can create a relatively distraction free feed of highly specific news. In contrast, on Google News I tried to do this, but you can't get rid of the "Top Headlines". It won't let you do it, probably because somebody somewhere relishes the power of telling everybody what to think is THE BIG POLITICAL STORY OF THE DAY.