I use twitter to follow people (usually scientists or public intellectuals) that tweet solid ideas or share essays with solid ideas. I only follow accounts with

I use twitter to follow people (usually scientists or public intellectuals) that tweet solid ideas or share essays with solid ideas. I only follow accounts with high signal to noise ratio. Noise is empty tweets that have no substance or buzzfeed like articles. Here is a prime example of an account and tweet that has lots of substance https://twitter.com/michael_nielsen/status/1061824470556467200 https://twitter.com/michael_nielsen/status/10618244705564672... He also has lists of accounts on his profile that have high signal to noise ratio. https://twitter.com/michael_nielsen/status/1081070044648398848 https://twitter.com/michael_nielsen/status/10810700446483988... Personally I would love to have the feature of following accounts for their self-written tweets but not retweets. Definitely will help with signal to noise. But that goes against Twitter's business model, so I doubt it will happen.