Well, the day has finally come. Since yesterday, Klout allows you to delete the profile they (or you) created on you.
In my case, that means I’ll first have to sign up for klout, as they created my account all by themselves – but I’m happy to go through that little PITA
Here’s how to delete your account:
Klout
- Go to Klout, log in, go to your Profile Settings
- Click on click here
- Click on Continue opting-out
- 3 clicks here, or 4 with some text – you decide. But at the bottom of the page, enter your name, and click Submit
- Notify the pop-up, quite a few caveats there that suggest Klout is hand-handling this but we’ll fix that in the next 15 seconds
Twitter(Twitter is just one of the networks you’ll have to do this for: most will only have Twitter as a network)
- Go to Twitter, go to your Settings
- Click Applications
- Locate Klout, and click Revoke Access
- Last but not least, verify that your Klout profile has vanished: go to your Klout profile, and you should see the first picture at the top of this post
Now, enjoy a more 2.0 world out there.
Related articles
- You Can Now Delete Your Klout Profile (lockergnome.com)
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- Do New Klout Scores Predict Influence? (christopherspenn.com)
- Klout – Disturbing New Evidence! [Nic Oliver] (ecademy.com)
(Cross-posted @ Business or Pleasure? - why not both)
[...] In my last post I showed how to remove your Klout profile from the public eye, without waiting for Klout to take 24-48 hours to do so. As I get impatient every now and then, I decided to take the first 500 tweets containing Klout and delete after I published it. I ignored all the tweets that said something like “Gee I wish I could delete my Klout profile” and only kept those that showed knowledge of being able to delete their Klout account with a few simple clicks. [...]