I have a few tech people I want to follow as they use it as a blog. But I do not want an account on twitter as it is too easy for me to get dragged into conversations that are unproductive for everyone involved. So I picked a method where I link about 5 people created a folder in firefox and linked to their pages. Then if I am wanting to 'see what is going on'. I open all links in that folder. I do that maybe once a month. Twitter is an attention machine. It feeds on getting your attention. Outrage does that quite nicely so they boderline openly encourage it.
This is a good idea. Unfortunately other social media sites have started to force logging in to see content (Instagram, for example) so I worry that Twitter will do something similar soon.
My solution to this was to set my Twitter account to private and kick out almost all my followers. So if I do get tempted to tweet a reply to something, no one will see it anyway.
