Watching your follower count like a hawk is a little like obsessively checking HN to see whether your comments have been upmodded and/or provoked replies.
(thinks)
Oh dear.
I don't think there's anything wrong with paying attention to what's essentially a discussion forum. Tracing one's follower count would be akin to tracking the "Read" stats on a forum topic instead of "Replies."
Nothing really wrong with it. But let's just say I'm glad there's no "Subscribe to these comments via SMS" option :-)
Honestly I hoped this nuked a couple of my followers. I block new ones which seem spammy, but a few were borderline who I gave the benefit of the doubt.
finally, the spam accounts are annoying.
Next thing you know, they'll be deleting your copies of 1984 and Animal Farm.
Losing follows because they were spam accounts equates to Amazon deleting 1984?