I have expressed this same sentiment to some friends who use Twitter. I don't know how much they use Twitter, but they seem to have the hang of it. The general

I have expressed this same sentiment to some friends who use Twitter. I don't know how much they use Twitter, but they seem to have the hang of it. The general consensus has been that to use Twitter effectively, you have to only follow accounts that are informative (a friend of mine follows obscure linguistic stuff) and be brutal about unfollowing people that aren't providing value. I also know that there are blocklists and ways to in general tame the rowdiness. It seems like sound advice. I tried it, but Twitter still didn't "stick" for me. Primarily I did not find curating my own experience to be work I enjoyed doing, and it certainly did not net me a return that justified the investment of my time or mental energy. So I stick to re-directing individual tweets to nitter.net.