I have a gazillion new followers since a couple of months ago. I thank all of you for joining me on this brain-addled adventure. It's more fun with more friends and more engagement.

A word about following back though. >

I've discovered really great people among the new ones I've met and have increased the number of people I follow.

I do not decide whether to follow back based solely on the size of your following. I follow many small accounts and few massive ones.>

Some of the smaller ones, to be honest, are old friends, and so many of my Twitter friends are gone that I do treasure the ones who remain.

But I sometimes can tell that a certain brilliance lies behind a small account that's new to me and it's a joy to add it.>

My main concern about following isn't my prestige. It's that at a certain point you're following so many people that following anyone becomes increasingly meaningless.

It's hard for me to imagine the experience of following many thousands of people. >

I realize that I'm missing some content I may appreciate by being so backward, but one of the things that makes me follow an account is the content from accounts they follow and I don't. We all trust each other's judgment to a great extent. >

This also provides an important filtering mechanism. I don't follow the President. But many of my my friends do, so I almost always know if he tweets something worthy of my attention.

In sum: I'm carefully adding, and at the same time always culling and planning. >

And I engage with everyone I can given the time available - because now that my account is, at least for the time being, big, there's a lot of engagement - if there's really something to add to the conversation and without regard to that account's "status." >