Sounds more like a maturity problem, probably reminiscent of what email had decades ago.

I'd love some client-side filtering & prioritization of my twitter data. While it doesn't have the same archival needs of email, I definitely care more about my infrequently-twitting friends than the dozens of them coming off the more famous tweeters.

As for high school, that's what you get when any social system starts to stagnate.