Followers are neither vitally important, nor something you can just automatically expect.

But they still matter.

I've often used this and similar microblogging just as a kind of notepad, writing down ideas and info/evidence for something I'm working on, meaning it does have some *small* value even when no-one reads it.

But even that rather unexciting way of using these platforms benefits tremendously from interaction with an audience, even a small one.

Enhancing discovery of accounts you might enjoy interacting with is pretty obviously... good?

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