I've tried to curate my activity, followings and topics to have a nicer experience. Like Google News, the curation works well, but slowly degrades in a few weeks until I'm seeing thing I'm not interested in, but their algorithms say people tend to engage with (mostly sports, celebrities, politics).
Twitter is specially annoying because it constantly probes you, be it with irrelevant posts to see if you like them, and asking you to confirm what topics you like or dislike. At least it includes a disclaimer when it's doing that.
I don't really think about twitter as a social network. For me it's more like complete shitfest which is sometimes informative and/or funny.