[Mindwipe]

> The problem in practice is that twitter actively fights you doing this. It tries to pour raw sewage into your nice clean stream and you can't stop it. You see what other people have liked, or what's popular or lots of other things I don't want to see.

Even with all the barriers in place, the truth is that Twitter still works better through a third party application.

Your feed comes through relatively unmolested, with just the things you want to follow in the order you want to follow them.