In July 2009 I set a goal for myself to grow my followers organically (I had roughly 25 at the time after having twitter for over 2 years but not really using it). Basically what that means is that I wasn't going to follow a bunch of people just to get artificially inflated followers, I wanted people to discover my thoughts and then choose to follow me. That's what made sense to me because that's the way I determine whether or not I follow someone.
Hopefully what I have now is 100 people following me who are genuinely interested in what I'm saying, or find me charming at the very least. I'm just going to keep on doing what I've been doing and hope people continue to like it. Sometime later I'll put up a longer post about why it's good to have a twitter (it's been in the works for a few days) but for now that's all I've got.
If you visited me from a link via twitter, thanks!
*I also find it funny how we arbitrarily set accomplishments as big, shiny, round numbers- but that's something else entirely.