Congrats on the "milestone". You are right the amount of followers versus the number of reads does not compute. Of course, part of it could be the platform and the fact this is really nothing more than a stream of articles coming at people. Like I mentioned yesterday, I feel that the communities feature might assist in that since we can gather around a particular interest.
That said, we know a fair portion of the followers is exactly what you stated....people who click follow and never even read one of your articles. I think it is the same across the board. At present, I am looking to clean out the list of those I follow...a lot of dead weight in there.
I appreciate your contributions on here.