The following to follower ratio is a misleading statistic. The number of people you want to see Tweets from vs. the number of people that want to see your Tweets isn't relevant unless you're using Twitter as a publicity platform or are "collecting" followers like you collect Friends on FB/MySpace.
In this case the information is arguably very relevant, but I hope it isn't used generally for all users as it's a biased metric for judgement of quality.
In this case the information is arguably very relevant, but I hope it isn't used generally for all users as it's a biased metric for judgement of quality.
Quality information is not always popular.