My take on the whole issue of the number of Twitter followers I have ...

I don't care.

This also applies to the number of Twitter followers anyone else has. "Followers" is a false positive as far as a metric. Number of Followers is like a Twitter version of an Arbitron or Nielsen rating. It really doesn't mean all that much.

If you want to measure something on Twitter, measure the number of re-tweets (RTs) you get. RTs mean you are posting interesting stuff.

Keep in mind that Twitter is all about RIGHT NOW. This means being interesting, useful, funny, provocative, etc. in an immediate format. How do you that? By being those things off-line and extending them to Twitter and other social mediums.