I’m not quite sure your analogy holds together, but it’s certainly an interesting take on information overload (which is undoubtedly a serious problem).

You talk about improving the quality of the information we ingest – how about borrowing another comparison from the food world – three square meals a day? It doesn’t matter how healthy your diet is, if you are stuffing your face every minute you are awake, you’re going to get fat. Perhaps we can think of information overload in the same way? Not just improve the quality, but try and restrict our intake to well defined time periods?

However the problem I find is not that this information is bad for me or fatty, to continue the food metaphor, but that it is just too much. It is not bad or unhealthy information which troubles me but the good stuff. It is a vast supermarket of products, all desirable, which you cannot hope to ever fully explore. Twitter itself acts as the filter to junk food as you only choose to follow those who you find interesting. The problem is then the sheer volume of good, nutritious information out there which is still too numerous to digest and stay on top of. The guidelines for information need to not only cut out the bad, but help us digest the vast quantities of good information out there.