Well, maybe you succeeded, and if so good for you. In my experience, unfollowing does almost nothing. My problem was not especially "ideological" people as muc

Well, maybe you succeeded, and if so good for you. In my experience, unfollowing does almost nothing. My problem was not especially "ideological" people as much as "concerned" people. For example I followed a brilliant young French doctor who was usually entertaining, but who's incensed by all the antivax noise and who would regularly retweet antivax rhetoric, not to defend it of course but to expose it. That would get me all worked up... and for what? There is no benefit to this for anyone (and not even for Twitter, as I only used it on desktop with an adblocker). If I want to read interesting articles about any topic by many other means (including HN!); Twitter isn't bringing anything useful to me (but again, that's just me, YMMV, etc.)