don't use twitter to follow Important People and keep up with the daily outrage; use twitter to make friends through meaningful/interesting/fun interactions and good reply game.
how to go about doing that is the meat of the article, and is worth reading if that sounds like something you would want to do.
It's a full introduction to twitter with many aspects. I had to read it all to understand that twitter is more than a timeline of status updates.
The idea that stands out to me is that twitter is some form of multi-user kinopio.club [1],[2] when you connect tweets into threads and when you use the search engine properly.
