You will see, that there is a real steep and fast learning curse.
Don't look at the number of your followers, only the genuine ones count. The ones which are willing to interact with you. The ones that do find interesting what you will be writing.

Do fall for the follow-me-follow-you request. Let people self decide if they want to follow you, and just follow the people you are interested in.

I am a little surprised with the big upvotes you got. This will give you a head start.
If you have any questions, feel free to ask. Maybe you should start with reading about the dust threshold and the voting power. You can find something about the dust threshold on my blog. The voting power could be found on other blogs.

Edit: forgot to mention, that you don't need to do anything for the bot, while I would appreciate it :) But don't feel obliged to do so, I am just glad that you are a member of our community because of who you are, not because of what you could do for us!