They are following me

Apparently twitter with it's supreme simplicity has fallen victim to a bit of spam, either that or I have randomly become popular.
Since I have no reason to assume the latter, I will digress on the former.
So I've been getting more and more followers on twitter- based on what I believe is a sophisticated network of random salespeople. Either that or the spike in twitter signups has caused people to create some sort of organic network structure where they trade follows instead of followers. This is weird to me, as I always thought the trick to being successful on twitter is to follow fewer people than are following you. Especially since it's really impossible to keep up with the minutia of 4400 people.
Twitter is interesting, I must admit, in that it is supremely useful in determining the overall health of the intertubes. Everytime something breaks, I can find out about it on twitter. It is also great for reporting on disasters as they happen, as the "scoop" instinct is present in every human, and if people can present information FIRST or offer insight no one else has, it gets retweeted forever and ever and they rack up fair-weather-followers(FWF) like no one's business.
Anyway, here's my twitter. http://twitter.com/icyfenix