Do you know your Klout score?

This is a popular and yet controversial social media metric that measures your influence.  Your Klout score is based upon a scale of 1 to 100.  It is grouped by 3 factors: true reach, amplification, and network.  You are also given a “Klout style” ranging from “conversationalist” to “celebrity”.

My score is here:

Peter Trapasso’s Klout score

Is this important to you?

cheers,

Peter

@petertrapasso I am with @kristi-hines on this one as I also look at the score when I think that I have a really good week in social media, with a lot of mentions and coversations and guess what happens? It drops… I wish I could understand this.

I am interested in this, primarily because I don’t worry about this much. It bothers the individual in me…I don’t want to be worried what others think about me (too much). One of the beautiful things about social media is that it gives a voice to anyone who wants one.

Should I be more concerned?

Klout doesn’t really make sense to me.
I had a sky high Klout when I first joined it and at that point I talked about absolutely nothing but dogs (see my profile, he he…) on social media.

A high Klout doesn’t mean you are talking about anything professionally at all, it can very well be about family, friends and hobbies, as it was for me.

My Klout dropped when they did something to the algorythm recently but there are other reasons too. It must have been about the same time as Facebooks f8, the new Ticker and everything. And I went from having a completely open Facebook profile and everything public to a lot more closed and using friends lists to target special groups of friends. My reach should go down from that alone… A lot!

And since then I got another job position where I am mostly active on Facebook in secret professional groups (can Klout see them?) or acting as administrator for a lot of Pages that are not absolutely not connected to me on Klout.

It doesn’t mean I am less active on Facebook, it just means I don’t think Klout can see it. But my tweeting has gone down, I don’t have the time, have to admit that

Never figured out how to give someone K+, how do you do it?

Hi friends here at SME..
My friend Sharon Hayes wrote a really interesting article “10 Reasons Why I Opted Out Of Klout” - http://www.sharonhayes.com/business-marketing/klout/

I believe she hit some good points here.

It is to easy to game out these ranking programs. And I am really unsure how they build up their metrics to measure our scores. On Twitter Grader I have one account that I have not used in years that still has 100% score. 

Since I work in the Hospitality Industry my goals is to serve every guest no matter what their Klout score is with the same excellent service. 

I mostly use Klout for fun, and I give Klouts to people in my network. 

Cheers..

Are MorchHotel Blogger

My view is Klout seems to favor volume – such as heavy Twitter users, regardless of the quality of content they are sharing.  

In other words, one may have a large reach but the content being shared is purely conversational – as opposed to being useful.  

Is that clout?  If so, then maybe Justin Bieber’s score of 100 is justified.

On the flip side, Klout tells me I have twice as much influence as Seth Godin!  

Klout could be a valuable tool – but it really needs to get better first.

So what are your scores?

I’mKlout: 53Reach: 841Amplification: 69Network: 41No influential topics

I had a strange move as well — my score dropped after I had a youtube video which quickly got 10,000 views. Also, having private posts of course seems to ding you, but not sure if it should (depends who is in your network.) 

One issue I have with Klout is that (I think) there is no way to determine if people are learning from, or laughing at, someone. For instance if PersonA posts an informative, original article and gets 1,000 shares, and PersonB posts a “Share this or you are going to get hit by lightning” post and gets 1,000 shares…should these really be weighted the same?

Best,

This is good. I’m back. I was here earlier then left to go check my Klout score. I am parked at 48! It’s a little late but I’m still trying to learn new things and hopefully teach a few things everyday. When I was checking my score a bit earlier I came across Wahooly. It looks very interesting and yes I did register for free.  http://wahooly.com/kloutsignup/?refid=1f787d47 

I really don’t care about Klout at all. It does nothing for my martial arts business, to be quite frank.