Congratulations, to ye, fair Nell! It's quality, not quantity that counts. Right now there are a couple of people who crowd up my feed with crap, and if I didn't like them personally, I would stop following them. We seem to only get notifications within a certain range of writers because I find that I don't get notifications from people whom I enjoy reading.
I think it was last week that I passed the 8-year mark and I can't boast nearly that many, so I'd better get on the ball, too! Of course I worked fulltime the first six years.