yeah, good point for sure. problem is that I am living in Europe right now (I miss the US), and it used to be a lot easier to just meet up with someone knowledgable from any industry back in the US. Here, it's hard to do so. And cold-emailing companies in that field might come off as me trying to drain their competitive advantage? No? I'd be curious who might be able to help out. But calling up Klout would likely not get me a call back at this stage.

and just to add: I think my particular problem is, and that's sort of the selling point, my analysis and reports is not just growth data (which is easy), but my calculations require all of your follower details to work correctly (to provide correct results). Twitter is sending me random follower details, so having a partial set means little reliability (for up to 60 days).