I've started just skimming Twitter posts. One friend makes a post that has most of that info in it before I get to read the tweets, anyway (I don't have Twitter and only see it if someone feeds it onto their LJ.) I suppose that she does this because she has people who follow her on Twitter who don't follow her on LJ, but then it gets fed to LJ, so I don't know. Another friend gives a blow-by-blow of his day. That's just very boring. All the rest save one or two are mostly half of a conversation and, well, that's just dull and frustrating. So, I only read them now if it's someone who doesn't really post otherwise.

I think there was an add-on or something where you could filter them out, but I don't know enough about that stuff to find it.