I've set my #twitter account to dormant mode: private, no linked apps or services and of course no logins.
Still there are a few accounts I want to passively keep up with (writers, artists, indie game devs).
I've discovered that the #newsblur #rss reader does an excellent passive #birdsite reader. I can even filter in/out tweets based on their being RTs/replies/etc per account I want to follow.