That’s one of the many reasons I despise Twitter. The notion of “following” someone is repugnant to me.
I don’t do twitter either but don’t see anything wrong with “following” I sort of do it here. I know certain people have interesting things to say about some topics or have real knowledge of certain things. I look forward to their posts on those topics. Sometimes I look up posts by certain freepers, and I look for location to see if they are local to some things. I guess that is following.
To me that is the same as when I regularly read the newspaper, I knew some reporters were full of it and others did their homework. I valued some opinion pieces more than others.