I never cared much about my 'follower count', yet I've had some fantastic conversations and gained a lot of valuable info via Twitter. I've got barely over 100

I never cared much about my 'follower count', yet I've had some fantastic conversations and gained a lot of valuable info via Twitter. I've got barely over 100 followers, and a small proportion of them are people I know in real life. Maybe twitter should be promoting the use of hashtag topics more, since that's where I've found new people to follow and gotten followers by contributing.