It's a flaw in the respect that if Twitter wants people to use it, it shouldn't take the amount of effort you've put into it to be noticed. I mean, I feel like

It's a flaw in the respect that if Twitter wants people to use it, it shouldn't take the amount of effort you've put into it to be noticed. I mean, I feel like I've put a lot of effort into it and I only have 600 followers. Think about it like this. How long does a typical tweet live "above the fold" (where the user doesn't have to scroll down to see it)? It varies of course depending on how many people you follow and how frequently those people tweet. But on average the stream moves pretty fast, right? Let's say, for the sake of discussion, it lasts 10 seconds. I'd be willing to bet the average is much lower than that, but whatever. You, tptacek, tweet something and you have 16,000 people who MIGHT see that within that 10 second window. The typical person with 50 followers or less needs one of their 50 followers to be looking at Twitter within that 10 second window... or their Tweet will never even be read by anyone, let alone commented on. Don't you at least see how that leads to a negative-feedback loop that makes people not want to use the platform?