My account was started in 2007 or 2008 and I interact all the time with folks on my Twitter timeline. My account just got suspended again because they think I was hacked and I stated just that to them as well and hopefully they'll see that I'm using Twitter the right way. I interact with people, throw contests, and all that jazz on there. I have a very reputable website and internship program for that website which I also stated to Twitter, which is what this account is for. My account has 5,000+ tweets. I used to be able to follow 1,000 people easily without any problems. Then I upped it due to the glitch to about 7,000 people a day. I took a break for like a week and then tried 7,000 again and that's when I got suspended the first time. I followed about 200 people yesterday and then got suspended again. I'm hoping that this time after everything checks out, maybe Twitter can add me some sort of "safe" list, lol.
I have between 27-30k real followers.
Edit: My account reinstated yet again, lol...I'm just glad that Twitter support is awfully fast. Just waiting for my follower count to get back to normal. They say that that can take a few hours.