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Why Klout Should Not Be A Synonym For Influence

Waxing UnLyrical

The tool that’s making the most rounds these days, it seems to me, is Klout. There have been blog posts ad nauseam by online influencers (and I don’t mean to use that term in a belittling way, so please don’t anyone take it that way) on online tools such as Klout. Now, I have no axe to grind with Klout.

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Why You Should Care About Klout

Ari Herzog

The recent addition of LinkedIn to the mix of social media considered when calculating a Klout score has left many wondering about Klout, how to raise your score, and whether it matters after all. Have you heard of Klout ? What is Klout? Klout’s algorithm strives to measure a user’s online influence.

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How To Monitor Your Three Essential Internet Marketing Strategies

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

A great tool to collect this kind of data is a site called Klout. Klout allows you to sign in and link up a variety of social media platforms. Klout is a great way of measuring overall influence in your niche and on your social media sites as a whole, but overviews still aren’t quite as valuable as the actual facts.

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Are You Listening?

Small Business Mavericks

TweetDeck or HootSuite. Klout is an influence monitor. TweetDeck and HootSuite are social media management tools. In fact, if you want to keep tabs on your competition, listening is essential, and there are plenty of tools available to help you listen. Online listening entails many tactics. Google Reader.

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6 Timely Tips for Twitter Success

Convince & Convert

Or, use the free version of Cotweet or Hootsuite to scan or filter your public Twitter stream by Klout score. (A Not all Twitter followers have equal ability to amplify. Use twitalyzer.com to find the most influential followers in your network. A score over 30 is fairly influential).

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48 Ways to Measure Social Media Success

Webbiquity SMM

Klout and Kred scores). from HootSuite or other social media monitoring tool). . • Retweets (reflects both level of engagement and quality of shared content). Most tweeted links (i.e., which content is most popular with followers). Influence (e.g., Brand and mention tracking (e.g., Six LinkedIn Metrics. Number of company followers.

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Post Case Study: Triberr Visits vs. Google Analytics

Kikolani

This morning, when I popped onto HootSuite, I saw this tweet from Brankica of How to Blog Like a Star. Here’s what you are looking at: User Stats – The user stats (mostly in there for my own interest) is the followers and Klout rating for each Triberr member that shared my post. I had a total of 37 visits from HootSuite.