I've never seen the appeal in getting hundreds of random anonymous people to follow you. Though, admittedly, I have made a lot of twitter friends from back when you could view other peoples' conversations with their friends... There are a few people I know on twitter that I know nowhere else online and they aren't close friends or anything but they're fun acquaintances to talk to.
But for the most part, aside from some random people I followed (webcomic artists, celebrities, etc.) who might have followed me back, everyone on my following list knows me and vice versa. :x I like twitter since it's a great way for me to keep in touch when I'm away from the internet. (Like this weekend when I was able to check in every so often from my phone since my hotel didn't have internet.) n_n
As for internet... my dad says he's in charge of our home network but I'm the one who always has to fix it when something happens... or install new routers when our ISP sends us an upgrade... or tells him the wep password, lmao. >_>