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Why Klout's Social Influence Scores Are Nonsense
jfruh writes "Klout is a new social media service that attempts to quantify how much 'influence' you have, based on your social media profile. Their metrics are bizarre — privacy blogger Dan Tynan has been rated as highly influential on the topic of cigars, despite having only smoked one, decades ago. Nevertheless, Klout scores have real-world consequences, with people deemed influential getting discounts on concert tickets or free access to airport VIP lounges (in hopes that they'll tweet about it, presumably)."
If I had a person stick their Klout score on their resume I'd beat them with a wiffle bat.
Related: http://www.klouchebag.com/
But I don't really care what your Klout score is. THAC0 is what really matters.
Why can't we just stick to the system that has worked for decades? Judge a man based not on his Klout, but by his penis size or the value of his car.
What political party do you join when you don't like Bible-thumpers *or* hippies?
I prefer this: http://klouchebag.com/
Perhaps they could build one for Aspergers-wannabes
They have
C'mon, Klout is fun! Exactly because its metrics are so bizarre, it's really fun to check out yours and your friends' score, and compare it with some well known people. At my workplace we do it like every couple of days, and its like watching Monty Python. You can't keep a straight face when for example a guy sitting in the next cubicle suddenly turns out to be - according to Klout - more influential then the company CEO.
No it isn't. You can't just make this stuff up, you know, there are British people on the internet now.