Gaining Twitter Followers is Hard

I was excited when I first created my Twitter page (https://twitter.com/guitarantics, or @guitarantics). I thought "how hard can this be"? I've come to the realization that to gain real followers, that don't drop you because you don't follow them, and that don't spam you to death is hard. I've put a lot of time in recently to boosting my Twitter footprint and have had many thoughts: 1) Don't pay for followers, they just drop and make you look retarded 2) Use Fiverr.com to send a tweet to thousands of their followers, has worked (somewhat), 3) Don't worry about only having 100 followers. I'd rather have a consistent 100 that I can interact with that do the same than having thousands and having to take 3 days off work to read yesterdays Twitter feed. IMO.