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Klout Founder Tells the Slightly Dirty Secret of His Success
Klout, a website that defined the unctuous early days of social media, used to rate you based on your online presence. In its heyday, a high Klout score could get you special privileges – maybe a free soda – and bragging rights at the Rosewood hotel, the literal Hotel California where VCs checked you into…
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Your Klout Score Can Actually Get You Something Good Now
We all know that Klout is weird and slightly obnoxious, but now you can actually do something with those meaningless social media ranking numbers: American Airlines is letting you use its lounge services if you’re an “influencer”.
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How To Tell If You’re A Twitter Arseclown
You know Klout. It gathers your social media data to measure your influence. But Klout is dumb. Klout makes people think I am a good mum. But what if you could mine social data to tell you how insufferable any given person is on Twitter? That sounds a good deal more fun.
