Interesting. I do not have a large follower count but I'll readily admit that I do not follow a sizable portion of people who follow me.

Really comes down to having a tightly curated feed. In a sense I suppose that means I do not value most of the people following me enough to follow each of them but that's not to say I don't think they are valuable people. It isn't personal, rather I have found that it is hard to truly *follow* hundreds or thousands of people in any meaningful way.

One caveat is that I follow some hash tags which means I see a lot of the same groups of people and I'll interact with some regularity without following each of them individually.