Sometimes it introduces you to new people though that are interesting to follow (usually because people in your network liked their post or something). I find this generally valuable.

If you want to be extreme about it, you can put everyone in lists and then this won't happen. You can also use a third party client that doesn't do this.

My main Twitter complaint is the ads. There are so many and they suck. I'd much rather have Twitter premium that removes the ads.

That's quite surprising; I've found the ads to be fairly unobtrusive compared to almost any other website. I would prefer there to be a text only mode though - every so often, the ad repaint will cause the UI to "jump".

> My main Twitter complaint is the ads. There are so many and they suck.

There are no ads in third party clients such as Tweetbot.

When I was on Twitter I found the ads so distracting that I used the web version on my phone with Firefox and ublock origin. This did the job, just about if you can cope with the web client clumsiness and lag.

I tried to use tweet bot for a while, but I couldn't stick with it.

> twitter continues to show tweets from people I don’t follow

Are you using the reverse chronological timeline? That's the only way to fly.

I am, and it shows me tweets from people I don't follow. It cleverly uses the mechanism of "retweets" to show me them. It's only when you realise that _twitter only shows you selected retweets_ that you see the notion of retweeting is an excuse to show you tweets from people you don't follow.

reverse chronological?

Using twitter lists might solve that?