Does What You Do Online Carry Klout?

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This isn't talked about a lot "upstairs" either (a few threads discuss it) but like other 'credit' scores - KLOUT rates your online interaction, and could have bearing on your position in Social Media influence... :confused:

What Your Klout Score Really Means
Last spring Sam Fiorella was recruited for a VP position at a large Toronto marketing agency. With 15 years of experience consulting for major brands like AOL, Ford, and Kraft, Fiorella felt confident in his qualifications. But midway through the interview, he was caught off guard when his interviewer asked him for his Klout score. Fiorella hesitated awkwardly before confessing that he had no idea what a Klout score was.

The interviewer pulled up the web page for Klout.com—a service that purports to measure users’ online influence on a scale from 1 to 100—and angled the monitor so that Fiorella could see the humbling result for himself: His score was 34. “He cut the interview short pretty soon after that,” Fiorella says. Later he learned that he’d been eliminated as a candidate specifically because his Klout score was too low. “They hired a guy whose score was 67.”

Partly intrigued, partly scared, Fiorella spent the next six months working feverishly to boost his Klout score, eventually hitting 72. As his score rose, so did the number of job offers and speaking invitations he received. “Fifteen years of accomplishments weren’t as important as that score,” he says. (Read more) What Your Klout Score Really Means | Epicenter | Wired.com
  • Profile picture of the author KimW
    I can't believe people actually use a Klout score for anything but laughs.
    My score is 55. That and $3 will get me a cup of coffee at Starbucks. :rolleyes:
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    • Originally Posted by KimW View Post

      I can't believe people actually use a Klout score for anything but laughs.
      My score is 55. That and $3 will get me a cup of coffee at Starbucks. :rolleyes:
      I was quite surprised too that it could supposedly carry that much clout as well - I put this story in to see what if any experience anyone has had and what impact if any it holds...and who and why it matters to.

      It's new to me that it could have so much relevance to a social media equation -

      Advertising is a numbers game, and in the end that is ultimately all that matters to the bottom line for some.

      (Though Klout is a great name for a social media company :rolleyes: )
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    Bad news: My KLOUT score is Zero.

    Good news: My KURT score is 100.
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      I'm going to work on my Klout score and when i feel the time is right i will apply for Matt Cutts job
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    I have a sexy score of 101%

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