Nobody has a million Twitter followers

I'm curious how quickly most users become frequent Twitter users. My own ramping up process went something along the lines of:

Year 0: Made an account, was almost never on the site. Year 1: Started paying a bit more attention, used twitter.com primarily, posted statuses and built up followers Year 2 (present): Basically always have a desktop twitter client open, tweet once or twice a day or so and in rare circumstances spam my followers with conference or *Camp type event updates.

I will be quite interested in seeing whether or not the impact of being on the Suggested User List is felt in a year or two as those new users start coming into their Twitter own.

I'm kind of shocked as to why this is a surprise to anybody?

Isn't the very basis of twitters communication platform designed to be the basis of this exact situation?

So the author redefines "follower" to suit his own purposes? Makes the title a bit misleading.

This idea seems analogous to the fallacy of web 'hits' in the 90s.