You can put a maximum of 5,000 into your circles.. And if you try to do it too fast, their anti-spammer system will shut you down Source: https://support.google.com/plus/answer/1733011?hl=en
Usually it does not really makes sense to follow this amount of people. I suggest start using specific search terms and put them in as bookmarks if you really need to have those amounts done, use different accounts which you split up for topics in order to stay on top of it - you can easily switch between accounts make one account the relevant one - use the others for searching / reading but share news and comment from your primary one make sure that you are findable / have good content because in most cases people will not just recircle, it is way too much work to attract new followers rather think content and use comments and shares responsible
Really a helpful discussion here, usually Google Plus users try hard to increase followers, but it is better to add contributors instead of adding people not taking part in any sort of activity.
Would be useless to follow much people. Just target customers which are actually interested in your products.
I think all you can do is follow people. If they follow you back, only then the number os followers increase in your profile.
does it help ? i mean having the followers and all? anyway it was good to read such information i think this might gonna help me someday when i will be a regular google+ user..
Google plus maximum add your circle 5000 fans. A blogging friend recently asked my advice for using Google Plus. She prefaced her question with, “Since you have over 10,000 followers.