When it comes to Klout, people seem to love them or hate them. The issue surrounds the Klout score, which is a numerical value of one’s influence in the social media space. Opponents raise issues like the methodology used to calculate influence, the meaning of the distance between scores, ease of score manipulation, and the inconsistencies between scores from different users. Proponents (much harder to find, btw) like using the Klout score as a metric to gauge social media interactions.
(Editors note: I won’t link to blog postings because I do not want to take what was written out of context.)
As for myself, I don’t have a strong opinion about Klout and I bet the majority would agree with me. But this post is titled Why I Love Klout so I’ll tell you why.
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Tags: influence, Klout, social media