Why do you have to follow everyone you interact with? If you are using this to tag people of interest, isn't it beneficial to use another method anyway once you reach 5k, that will let you annotate and categorize them (such as lists or some non-Twitter method)?
The follow function is intended to get people's tweets into your feed. I can't imagine your feed stays usable when 5k people are posting into it, so it seems to me you are just putting stress on Twitter pub/sub platform to subscribe to more messages than you can possibly consume anyway.
Why does anyone really need that many follows? I limit myself to a few hundreds, removing old connections not to stay under some technical limit but just so that I don't get drowned in noise. I guess everyone consumes social media differently, and some people might want to get everything remotely interesting in their feed (and read a random sample) rather than the stuff they actually intend to read, but once you hit a technical limit why not take the hint?
The follow function is intended to get people's tweets into your feed. I can't imagine your feed stays usable when 5k people are posting into it, so it seems to me you are just putting stress on Twitter pub/sub platform to subscribe to more messages than you can possibly consume anyway.
Why does anyone really need that many follows? I limit myself to a few hundreds, removing old connections not to stay under some technical limit but just so that I don't get drowned in noise. I guess everyone consumes social media differently, and some people might want to get everything remotely interesting in their feed (and read a random sample) rather than the stuff they actually intend to read, but once you hit a technical limit why not take the hint?