"number of people allowed to follow = people following me * N" Makes it tough to get started on Twitter. If I sign up, I want to find my 10 closest friends and

"number of people allowed to follow = people following me * N" Makes it tough to get started on Twitter. If I sign up, I want to find my 10 closest friends and follow them right away. It'd be good to introduce a formula, but that one isn't quite the right one. Maybe a velocity based solution?