[Karunamon]

Not the guy you asked, but it's all about who you follow. You can't use Twitter like Facebook (i.e. "friending" everyone you tangentially know) without getting a useless flood of information overload.

Twitter is literally only as good as who you follow. You know the types that deride twitter as "Morons posting what they had for lunch" or similar? The answer is "don't follow people who post moronic food-based tweets".

Treat it more like an RSS feed with incidental two-way communication and you'll have a grand time.