You could do that, but I'm not sure that would be conducive to a great experience. There really is no guarantee that just because you follow person X, that you

You could do that, but I'm not sure that would be conducive to a great experience. There really is no guarantee that just because you follow person X, that you will be at all happy about what the people person X follows talk about. In fact, I'm willing to bet that if people started reading messages from most send-level connections we'd see a lot more flamewars. Of course I haven't done any real research on this, but I have at time decided to randomly follow people who are mentioned by some of the people I follow. It inevitably led to a lot of bad content that I did not want to engage with.