It's not a matter of how many follower you have. It has never been a matter of how many followers you have. Studies show that we each of us know about 150 people. Our friends, our true friends, number much less than that. What's a true friend?
- Someone you can call in the middle of a rainy cold night who will get out of a nice warm bed and come get you.
- Someone you can tell anything to with full and complete confidence that it will never be shared with anyone - ever.
Try either of those with one of your zillion followers and see what you get. Those zillions of followers are not your friends. You will never meet them, they will never meet you.
Here's a new concept in social networking. It's called, Who's Nearby, Not who You Know. These are people who you would probably like to meet and maybe get to know. And if they pass the ultimate test, become your friend. The link above, takes you to the article in the Business section of the Washington Post.
Having lots of followers is well and good, it shows that your content is superb and that it's veracity is validated by having many people waiting to read, or view it. And that's fine. Just don't think that they're your friend.
