Glad you like this post. I'm not really down with using the terms 'follower' or 'following'. I wonder if there some kind of better word. Fans, friends, etc. all seems hard to describe it too.

If I follow people for at least 10 different reasons and some people are in multiple categories, maybe I need to think of terms to refer to these people differently.
Maybe I need to stop thinking I have 1000 followers and just think I have 1000 different people.

Yeah you are right, I definitely took an interesting approach to this question.