Klouchebag
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I admit that I look at my Klout score every once and a while. Originally I thought Klout might actually work to be an indicator of how influential someone was; a way of discovering who to follow on Twitter, for example.
It became clear to me though that there is just too much noise in the system, and the algo they use simply can't replace instincts. As I used twitter more, I also realized I don't really care to follow "influential" people, but instead people _I_ find interesting. Only _I_ know if they are interesting or not.
Klout keeps suggesting that I'm influential about Tony Blair. I'm pretty sure I've never tweeted about Tony Blair. If there is any topic you could pick where I'm NOT influential about, it would be Tony Blair.
I noticed others commenting that Klout had picked some seemingly random topic for them to be influential about.
My theory: Klout is doing this on purpose, as a way to get people to tweet about Klout. (Any news is good news when trying to raise awareness of a brand). Actually a pretty brilliant tactic.
Anyway, Klouchebag is a brilliantly hilarious poke at Klout. Maybe Tom Scott secretly works for Klout...
Could you do a bookmarklet or somekind of integration with Twitter? (in page scores/metrics)