Twitter is great for my line of work.  You’ve got instant access to news on the latest technologies, trends, news, blog posts on pretty much any subject you might be interested in but lately I’ve felt it all get slightly bogged down by complete and utter triviality. Especially at weekends.

Maybe I’m just jealous that some of the people I follow appear to have a much more active social life at the weekend than me, but when you’ve managed to carve out a tiny bit of time on the web to do some research and check out Twitter (time is always short and you’re juggling nappies (daipers to you septic’s), grocery shopping and a nasty case of winter vomiting virus the last thing you want to have to scroll through are  literally dozens of tweets from the same person as they’re out on the lash.

Here’s an example of some the tweets in my feed from last weekend.

getting something to eat
eating a burger
going to the pub.  can’t wait!
drinking lager
this bar is so boring
I’m so drunk
Left the bar and on the hunt for food!eating a kebab
I don’t feel well
going to bed.  what a great night
I am hungover
I am drinking water
I have been sick
I hate Sundays.

Riveting eh?  When Twitter is used imaginatively and innovatively, it’s an amazing form of communication.  When it’s used by plebs, it is less so.

Auto unfollow on Friday, re-follow Monday.

Wouldn’t it be great if there was a Twitter plugin that let you automatically unfollow some users over the weekends and then re-connect on the Monday?  Think of the banality you’d be spared….