Twitter
January is always about a detox, a time to cleanse yourself of negative influence, guilty pleasures and useless clutter. And Twitter is a great place to start.
Are you wasting too much time scrolling through the feeds of vacuous celebrities who only tweet pre-approved crap from their PRs?
Ever wonder, 'why am I so angry ALL THE TIME?' when your feed is stuffed full of overly opinionated journalists whose self-important blather raises your temperature?
Have you kept loyally following grimly unfunny parody accounts who should just die quietly?
Did you eve think it was a good idea to follow the D-listers reinventing themselves professional trolls?
Yes, we've all done it. But with most of us following hundreds of accounts, it can be hard to know where to begin. Help is at hand. Here are the top 20 people to unfollow in 2015.
Who to Unfollow
George Galloway (@georgegalloway)(01 of20)
Yes, there's a lot of hackneyed old accusations about Blair being a war criminal and a "fugitive" (from who exactly?) but that's really not the main reason you should unfollow. The main reason is the Bradford West MP retweets EVERY SINGLE THING that people tweet at him. Mostly he's retweeting praise of himself. And that's breaking twitter rule No.1.
Milo Yiannopolos (@Nero)(02 of20)
He ran a tech start-up, spent some time as a semi-professional troll, and now has gone full-time working in some kind-of capacity for Breitbart (you probably haven't heard of it). His tweets range from talking about his drinking habits to making fun of blind people (see this tweet). Oh, and he's writing a book about #Gamergate. Take cover.
Barack Obama (@BarackObama)(03 of20)
We all followed him when he was doing his "hopey changey" thing back in 2008, and granted, sometimes his pictures of his dog are pretty cute. But now, pretty much all the man tweets are links to go get health insurance. We have a feeling he's not being himself. Sorry, BO, out with the old... time to follow @HillaryClinton and @JebBush
Katie Hopkins (@KTHopkins)(04 of20)
Pretty self-explanatory this one, but we didn't want to put her at number one. She'd like that.
Melanie Phillips (@MelanieLatest)(05 of20)
Actually, this one gets an unfollow tip because it's actually way more boring than you'd expect from the divisive columnist. Most tweets are retweets of people talking about her TV or radio appearances, or her plugging them. We 'd expect something more outrageous, @MelanieLatest.
Wikileaks (@wikileaks)(06 of20)
Purportedly run by Assange himself from his Ecuadorian embassy quarters, woe betide you if you get on the wrong side of this Twitter account when it sets the legions of adoring fans on you. If you still want to preserve the admiration you had for WikiLeaks from the good old days, avoid this account like the plague.
Media Lens (@medialens)(07 of20)
We're advising you to unfollow @medialens because, obviously, the Huffington Post UK is part of the mainstream media run entirely by elites on behalf of big bank-funded, GM crop-eating, child-killing robots and anything else evil. And we don't want you to know about it.
David Hasselhoff (@DavidHasselhoff)(08 of20)
Imagine you had an embarrassing uncle who tries to hang out with you and your mates and be "one of the lads". And that uncle is on Twitter. And mostly tweets about his free stuff. And has his own autograph as his background image. That.
Dr Eoin Clarke (@LabourEoin)(09 of20)
Whatever you think of the intentions behind the #CameronMustGo trend, it has started to grate. Especially with some tweeters effectively suggesting Cameron is plotting to sell the first-born children of NHS nurses wholesale to his banker friends. Labour Eoin, kudos for your campaign, give it a rest now.
Beyoncé (@Beyonce)(10 of20)
Beyoncé has tweeted 8 times since 2009. She has 13.7m followers. She uses her own name as a hashtag (#Beygood) for World Humanitarian Day. On Instagram, she's the hottest follow in your feed. On Twitter, she's a dead weight. Ditch it.
Old Holborn (various)(11 of20)
Self-described as Britain's "vilest troll". Keeps getting banned from Twitter. Avoid, in any incarnation.
Richard Dawkins (@RichardDawkins)(12 of20)
Although, of course, if you do unfollow him, Bin Laden has won.
The Rock (@TheRock)(13 of20)
Tweets like this ALL DAY. So self-congratulatory. So puzzling. And yet, so boring.
Max Clifford's Penis(14 of20)
It's nothing personal, Max Clifford's penis. You're being used in this context as one of those "hilarious" parody accounts which hinge on the breaking news of the day. Like Essex Lion. Or Cat Bin Lady. Basically, you're defunct after 24 hours. If you're following anyone like this, you should stop. Now.
Dimblebot (@dimblebot)(15 of20)
One of the classics, and this parody account has an impressive number of followers. But the joke's never been 100% clear, and it's pretty much the same material every week.
Tommy Robinson (@TRobinsonNewEra)(16 of20)
His Twitter handle says 'new era' but, call us unobservant here at HuffPost towers, it doesn't seem to have changed dramatically since TR stopped leading the EDL. So if you followed him to see what a second chance looked like, now you know. Unfollow.
Donald Trump (@realDonaldTrump)(17 of20)
All the man does is retweet people saying he should run for President. And hints that he might run for President. But then he doesn't run for President. Of course.
Nick Griffin (@nickjgriffinbnp)(18 of20)
True, you'd miss his hilarious dispatches from Syria (yes really), but Griffin isn't even the leader of the BNP any more. He's just a nobody who happens to have pretty distasteful views. So give him the unfollow.
Mo Ansar (@MoAnsar)(19 of20)
The question is, what does Mo Ansar actually do to deserve his 33,000 odd followers. He has claimed in the past to be an imam, a lawyer, a counsellor and a community leader, until all these claims were throughly debunked. His feed used to be entertainingly controversial, though seeing as he appears to have been exposed as nothing more than a loudmouth, it has been dull of late.
Louise Mensch(20 of20)
She upped sticks, left Parliament and crossed the pond, and now the former Tory MP doesn't have much on. So she's set on a career as Fox News pundit, first step was a column in the Sun Newspaper. Next step, pick a fight with pretty much anyone on Twitter. Be warned, even if you don't include her Twitter handle, she will find your tweet about her, or any of her big issues eg. surveillance, CIA torture, Israel (she's pro all those things). And fight you over it. And it'll be irony-free, like this tweet.