I'm with DeirdreJ . . . I'm very selective about who I follow. I don't particularly want any tweets streaming that are of little interest or totally outside my interest or core of beliefs. Every couple of days, I go through my "new followers" list and select those I want to follow based on their bio and their tweeting history. I want to follow people who offer something of value, whether it's humor, business, personal or health-related.

Some of these people out in Twitterville are clogging the Twitter stream with worthless tweets. So many of the ones popping up now as followers are using automated software to build their list of followers -- a lot of those people have shady businesses set up or are in the adult-entertainment business.

As for the DMs I get, I read them but find 90% of them appear to be "canned" messages set up to automatically deliver that message to every follower they receive. If I come across one that addresses something particularly specific to me, or mentions one of my tweets, I will send them a tweet addressing their DM.

I enjoy Twitter but sometimes it's a pain trying to weed through all the crap and crap(sters)! :-)