While there’s immense value in the real-time nature of the network, actually staying in touch with it all is not practical unless you work in news or basically have nothing else to do. Instead of watching the tweets fly by me in real time, or feeling the constant desire to log back in, I muted all of the accounts I follow and use Nuzzel to at least see what links are popular. This made Twitter increase in value for me, despite using it dramatically less.