Nobody has a million Twitter followers

I'm curious how quickly most users become frequent Twitter users. My own ramping up process went something along the lines of:<p>Year 0: Made an account, was almost never on the site. Year 1: Started paying a bit more attention, used twitter.com primarily, posted statuses and built up followers Year 2 (present): Basically always have a desktop twitter client open, tweet once or twice a day or so and in rare circumstances spam my followers with conference or *Camp type event updates.<p>I will be quite interested in seeing whether or not the impact of being on the Suggested User List is felt in a year or two as those new users start coming into their Twitter own.

I'm kind of shocked as to why this is a surprise to anybody?<p>Isn't the very basis of twitters communication platform designed to be the basis of this exact situation?

So the author redefines "follower" to suit his own purposes? Makes the title a bit misleading.

This idea seems analogous to the fallacy of web 'hits' in the 90s.