A Betrayal of Trust?

Today casters all over Twitch just got hit with what many consider a massive betrayal by Twitch.tv , in limiting the number of people you can follow from 100 up to 250.  This SEEMS like a plus right?  Well  that's both right and wrong.  There has never been an announced limit that I am aware of to the number of follows that a person can have on their account, but now they are limiting us.  This means that for smaller streamers like myself people are much less likely to follow us because they have other casters… larger casters that they are going to want to follow.
Where this really hurts are small casters when you consider that we make all of our money from things like the now defunct Chip-In, or the replacement pitchinbox.com.  Unlike large casters or people who have managed to break the  consistent 400 concurrent viewer mark we don’t have subscriber buttons to earn half of what a subscriber agrees too, we can’t run ads to make revenue.  We do this for free, the ads that play on our channels are placed there by twitch, we hope to one day aspire to the heights of having a sub button so that we can hold our heads up and say we’ve joined the ranks of twitch.tv/manvsgame or twitch.tv/crumps2, and of course twitch.tv/eddieruckus
For all the casting I’ve done I still average less then double digit viewers.  In all honesty I don’t know that I will ever break 100, let alone 400.  I hope and dream to make that number some day, but do I expect to?  No.  As this industry grows and becomes more popular I hope to see it happen but part of me knows that there is a slim chance that it will, or that I will ever make enough for this to be a full time job.  To make the type of money I’d need to survive doing this, we are talking about having to sell merchandise, have several hundred subscribers, and become something huge.  My stream hasn’t grown at all in essence since I’ve started to stream live.
I sincerely hope that Twitch changes this decision.  If they don’t I fear they WILL lose new streamers to other services such as UStream or any other new comers who are going to pop up over the life of games played for others.  The biggest question is, will they listen to their casters, the people who watch and helped build them up to where they are now, or will they go corporate on us and think only of the profit.  Well Twitch… the ball is in your court what will your answer be?

Update:
After an hour I clarified a few points above  and wanted to add a few more thoughts below.  Food was calling too strongly for me to resist.  Bacon, Eggs, Biscuits, and a good cup of coffee... sometimes the body just knows what it wants. :P

To play what many might consider devil's advocate we have to consider Twitch's side of things.  They have branched out massively with their coverage of e-sports.  They are rolling out new formats, and are doing work to try to make streaming easier for casters.  What they have created has never been done before on the scale that they are doing it.
They have created something new in a world were, quite often "new" isn't exactly welcome, and "different" or "unusual"  as many of the casters might be considered to be.... well it makes for a risky combination.  I think a lot of the reactions now are gut reactions, people reacting purely out of initial shock and anger.  I hate the new limits, I don't feel that it is fair at all, but hopefully its just a temporary measure.  I'm attempting to to remain optimistic however I'm biting my lip because this could be disastrous to smaller casters.