Influence tools: the devil is in the details
For those of you who haven’t heard of Klout, let me give you a brief history: they started back in 2009 with a lot of marketing, a so-so product and non-existent service. They had two ways of handling criticism: either shower the critic in increased Klout score, or ignore him (or her). With criticism multiplying […]
How Klout could make Twitter a better place
I’ve written my fair share of posts on Klout. 1.5 years ago I started off with a mild post called “Why I have doubt about @Klout” At the beginning of that I stated First of all, I highly appreciate the service – and I ended with 11 extra Klout points in 12 days on the […]
Klout ‘o Calypse: 2.5 million people can’t be wrong
I wrote an initial post on people killing their Klout on the very same day that Klout enabled them to do so. I took tweets as a basis for my testset, and it appeared that 20% of (the 300) people tweeting about being able to delete your Klout profile, also had actually done so. Two […]
Flout.me is fun, but should be flogged and reported
I did what I guess most of you did when you saw the first entry of flout.me in your Twitter timeline: frown. Then I saw another one. And another one. And smiled. I clicked the URL, authorised the app, then laughed out loud Looks familiar? Well, there’s more to it than that: Flout is a […]
Once bitten, twice shy? Klout scores get clouted again
Almost 1.5 years ago I showed how very, very flawed Klout’s actually is. I made some nice screenshots and illustrated how Klout’s scoring is statistically impossible, and how they magically manage to present you with two scores at the same time. Today, history repeats itself, proving that Klout is still just as immature a product […]
The initial KloutoCalypse: how big is it?
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 […]
Completely drop your Klout account in 30 seconds
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 […]
Why I’m using fake identities to sign up
That is, from now on I will. It is not only getting harder to sign up, it is also getting harder to sign in, and out. Let me explain please as this story has a few sides to it. But first, let me make my point: I’m going to use fake identities to sign up […]
New Klout Scores. No Sir, Many People Do Not Like That.
The whining has been phenomenal today with the changes to how Klout scores your relative influence within social media and networks. While it is an interesting system, and one that I do watch because when I have a Klout score of above 50 people offer me interesting things to do, there are still some things […]
I wish that Klout allowed for divergent systems
I like Klout; it is an interesting system that can be easily tweaked to work with the major social systems out there. Klout support most of the major systems such as Facebook, Blogger, Flickr, and others to try to put together a bird’s eye view of how your influence and supporters/followers tend to influence others […]
Klout’s True Reach? Simply your follower count
In yesterday’s post I busied myself with new ways of looking at Twitter statistics. Today I was suggested to compare them to Klout scores. I did, and I found out that their True Reach – that vast, impressive number that you probably look up to – is nothing more than a simple mathematical equation Klout […]
Twitter stats redefined – now measuring true influence?
I had a small revelation the other day while on Twitter and chatting with Alan Berkson. As you may or may not known, I’m a self-proclaimed statishist, meaning that I really get excited by statistics, or stats for short I did a few calculations on 20 Twitter people, taking their latest 1,000 followers, and looking […]
Want to Meet One of the Most Social People in Social Business?
There are others with more followers, others with more Klout, others that tweet more, others that have written a book. Others that are more popular, others with more buzz, others that run bigger communities and others with larger networks. But none that have a multi-channel, multi-category social dominance like Tristan Bishop. If you only followed […]
How @mezmerrett became a Twelebrity overnight
On the 24th of May 2011, Mez Merrett sent out a brilliant tweet: If you prefer TWITTER over FB then please retweet, i’m trying to show @Jessmayporter how far one tweet can actually go, Thanks for helping Mez has a hot avatar and bio, so does Jessika. The tweet is hot too: it’s got the […]
Too much Social Me-dia going on
Hat tip to Sameer Patel for the tweet that led me to this: @lehawes Folks taking the Me in Social Me-dia too literally 🙂 I’ve noticed quite a bit of this lately. A few weeks ago, I unfollowed 20% of my follows because they either RT’ed themselves or their friends, and vice versa. Seeing a […]
