I found this to be true as well, although I am much smaller than you I found that I had a lot of followers but only a few that actually interacted with me on my posts. I'll say this though I make sure to return the favor, so to speak, and interact with them on their posts because if they took the time to do that for me then I will do that for them!
every time you 'interact'...you gain just a tiny bit of steem...sometimes more than just a little.
Exactly! Thanks!