> If you think the people you follow retweet bad stuff, you need to follow better people.
That's not a very good generalization - I have retweets turned off for many accounts I follow, some because I found I was interested in what they tweeted (so I wouldn't want to unfollow them) but less interested in what they retweet, but in most cases it's because I try to keep my feed relatively low-volume and some people are extremely liberal with their retweets so turning off retweets for those accounts keeps my feed more manageable.
I tried following good people on Twitter. Even some of the popular users on here, or other highly intelligent and respected people. I cannot think of anyone better to follow.
I can't do it. There's so, so much shit. It's a constant storm of random "news" plus attempts at being clever. Retweets amplify this significantly.
And then Twitter's web UI make the entire thing unusable. Click an image? Lose your place in a stream. It's an embarrassingly bad UI that seems designed to toss me to locations that are anything but where I was reading.
If you think the people you follow retweet bad stuff, you need to follow better people.
edit: I think the converse might be more accurate - if the people you follow retweet bad stuff, then the regular tweets probably aren't good either.