This guy posts cool, obscure Mario trivia: https://twitter.com/MarioBrothBlog
A wiki about cut content in old games retweets cool new finds: https://twitter.com/CuttingRoomWiki
This non-profit posts articles about classic gaming: https://twitter.com/GameHistoryOrg
Oh and the Homestar Runner guys started making content again, on Twitter: https://twitter.com/StrongBadActual
There's lots of nuggets. It's not even hard to find them among all the shit. If you're following someone whose content you don't like, just stop following them. One big tip I wish was more obvious is that you can turn off retweets from specific people you follow. So if someone posts cool content themselves, but also retweets a bunch of political trash, you can get the former without any of the latter.