OH MY! why did I just read this today? This is very helpful and I do agree with you that well probably don't follow everyone, I tend to follow people who also follow me back but still under the same interests.
It happened to me once and I run to help channel, Timcliff helped me sorted out my problems and the next day, people are talking about bandwith problem and all they could do was waiting. Now I've leant my lesson to not use everything excessively.
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