Is this really such a big deal? I once tried following a couple hundred people, I think it was maybe 220ish? - I found it then became a chore (and was on the v

Is this really such a big deal? I once tried following a couple hundred people, I think it was maybe 220ish? - I found it then became a chore (and was on the verge of becoming a major time sink) to sift through all the messages everyday to find anything of value. Any sane person (realistically) is unable to follow 2000 active people, its just not rational to think so. If it were such a big deal, then change things around - make it so that after a certain threshold, when you "follow" a user, you have to then click again to receive updates. That way people can have their warm fuzzy feelings about having their follow reciprocated and it might help with fixing their scaling issues.