Many re-tweets look like unreadable garbage to me, since people are often using URL shorteners in tweets that otherwise contain little else in the way of conten

Many re-tweets look like unreadable garbage to me, since people are often using URL shorteners in tweets that otherwise contain little else in the way of content. I tend to ignore long streams of such links, but maybe that's just me. Then again, I still don't think that I "get" Twitter.