I sort of doubt this is, in fact, the biggest question for most people. Or even most people among those on Twitter, who are a small fraction of the total population. Or even those users of Twitter who have fallen within its reality distortion field and think that their follower count means anything, since the reality distortion field suggests that the count is important rather than the individual followers.
Your startup requires that X perform an operation which is expensive in terms of time, effort, and perceived risk (installing a plugin and then commenting) without receiving value so that Y can receive value. That is a virtually perfect recipe for not gaining traction.
Very nice design, though.
I mean lets just go over to search here...
http://search.twitter.com/search?q=why+do+people+follow+me
There's some ammo right there to back up a concept like this. Will it save lives and make oodles, maybe not but could it fill in some blanks sure!
There's little value in lists and far more effort.
Twitter, the next Pfizer acquisition?
without a plugin or a way to hit the person at the moment they decided to follow someone you'd have to care to come to the site and tell why afterwards etc. the plugin just facilitates the "get'm now while its hot in yer head"
