On Large Twitter Follows

Recently I was followed by someone on Twitter who had the following statistics:

This is quite a large amount of tweeting and this person seems to follow a lot of people.

What is the point in following that number of people on Twitter?

If each of those accounts tweets just once a day, that is an average of 48 tweets per minute. Now, I am not the fastest reader in the world. But it strikes me as impossible that this person is actually reading any of the tweets of the people they are following.

What's also interesting is the nearly 190,000 tweets. At this rate of production, it is even less likely that this person is listening.

Does this person understand that the social part of Social Networking means engaging with people. Talking yes, but also listening and responding are all part of that engagement.

I don't think I will be following this account.

What do you think of accounts like this on Twitter?