[tezmc]

The other commenters said most of it already but here's what I do. I follow multiple headline accounts (BBC, Sky, Al Jazeera, Reuters etc), those tweets usually have a headline and a link to the article if I want to read the rest.

I follow around 100 accounts at any one time, and frequently prune the list so it doesn't get to busy or full of stuff I'm no longer interested in.

I also follow specific journalists, politicians, science and tech people who also often link to things they're reading which are useful background for what's going on.

By far the most useful thing is creating custom columns in tweetdeck for search terms. Think of it like this: rather than subscribing to an RSS feed for a site and hoping they post stuff I'm interested in, it's more like automatically generating a news feed on any subject you're interested in. I have a bunch of saved searches on all kinds of subjects, some of them may only get one or two tweets a week, but it keeps me up to date.

Another benefit to using searches is that it's a good way to discover people who are consistently tweeting interesting stuff so you can follow them. Without the search I would never have heard of or thought of following some of the people I do.