Whenever I open up my twitter, I get a stream of [re]tweets which I have no time to read, let alone click on the links see what the heck: "#nodjs #opensource #awesome #ipad #3d http://t.co/X3sZ3 #instapaper"

is all about.

What I usually do, is looking quickly at the 10-20 newest tweets, see if there is anything interesting or not.

This way, I miss at least 95% of the tweets in my stream, but what else can I do?

I think I am not the only person who have this problem, I think this applies far beyond twitter, and relevant to the way we are going to consume [social] media in the near future while trying to get some things done, build some things and deliver them from time to time.

The signal vs noise ratio is just getting bigger (on the noise side) and there is not yet proven technology to filter that noise and show us only what we want.