&gt;I have no idea what I would tweet about.<p>That&#x27;s essentially why I don&#x27;t use the service in a nutshell, and find it in its entirety much ado about nothing.<p>However, I mentioned I need to follow this advice as well because I often meet developers from other companies, and many in my local area are involved with each other on Twitter.  Particularly, the UX and RoR communities of my area are both quite strong on Twitter (I&#x27;m a C#&#x2F;Python guy, but it still applies).  In sum, They are much better aware of what&#x27;s going on and where to find a new job, should they need one.<p>I&#x27;m in the same boat as you - in order to further develop myself I&#x27;ll inevitably have to cave and make a Twitter account.<p>&gt; Do you just use it to follow things and post replies to people looking for help?<p>In a nutshell, yes.  Or dev jokes, or your current project(s), or really anything that builds up your following.   The metrics are available....use them!
&quot;Retweeting&quot; other developers you follow should help as well.<p>&gt; I&#x27;m worried that maintaining my feed (?) would be a huge time sink.
&gt; Do you have suggestions for tools or tactics for making sure the signal to noise stays high?<p>It <i>is</i> a huge time sink.   But unfortunately the &quot;powers that be&quot; place a premium on having both an online presence, and online &quot;clout.&quot;   While a Github profile and personal website is certainly more important for reputation as a developer, your Twitter serves as a mouthpiece for your work and is (again, unfortunately) ultimately the first _and_ last thing looked at.<p>Maintaining your feed, I guess, would be easy as a developer.  You have normal user level things - ie: only follow the accounts in your developer sphere - and you can also use management systems and third party software to filter out more of the noise.   Hell, you could even write your own and use that same tool to build up your following!    I believe most of the timesink in that aspect would be front-loaded - once you&#x27;re up and running, you don&#x27;t need to put much more work in.