First let me say that I use Twitter (and basically Facebook and Instagram) basically as a write only medium, therefor I can't really have conversations there anymore.

1. NetNewsWire, Google Reader
2. https://github.com/jeena/FeedTheMonkey and https://woodwind.xyz/
3. Marking as read on all my devices, comment/like/repost via micropub
4. No way to let the computer read the text for me easily, that's why I have written https://github.com/jeena/Speaker but it only works on OS X