I love Twitter, it is my favorite social network and I get tremendous value out of it.

For me the keys were:

- Be fast to follow and unfollow accounts. It's hard to build a valuable feed, and requires a lot of experimentation. Some accounts I felt sure would be valuable are not (for example, info security researchers who only tweet complaints about travel rewards programs). And some accounts that seemed marginal turned out to be great, like some socialist/leftists who are also hilarious.

- Don't write tweets. Seriously, unless you are really trying to build a personal brand, there's no reason to tweet. Same with retweets.

- Remember any tweet you enjoyed and might want to see again. You can do this with the "like" button, or by bookmarking.

- Block or force-unfollow anyone following you, who you don't like. A force-unfollow is done by blocking and then immediately unblocking that account. Doing this silently knocks them off your follower list.

- Ultimately I made my account private to make it easier to focus on reading.