@brembs
It took me years to build up to 10k followers. I was a big user of Twitter, including hosting my own tweetchat on healthcare quality and safety. I had literally thousands of followers for my blogs, my short stories, and my research work.
Then Dorsey sold that to an arsonist who promptly fucked it all up.
I am sure as hell not investing that sort of effort again, only to have Jake Fucking Dorsey sell it again as soon as the numbers looked good. Fuck him.