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Klouchebag Let’s You REALLY Know What Your Klout Score Means

SocMed Sean

I can’t stand Klout. Anyone who discusses social media with me usually has to sit through one (or more) of my diatribes about how ridiculous Klout is, why it doesn’t measure social media influence, and why relying on the score is one of the most annoying noob habits of social media. Okay…I’ll confess.

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Top Five: Tidal Wave of New Social Media Features

Sherrilynne Starkie

Plus end of the road for Klout. Instagram has introduced mute in feed, a new way to control what posts users see on Instagram. The new feature lets people hide posts in feed from certain accounts, without unfollowing them. With this change, users can make their feeds even more personalized to what matters to them.

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Why Critics of Klout Are Missing the Big Picture

Convince & Convert

Other than signing book deals, the favorite sport of the social media punditry these days seems to be bashing Klout. The most recent example was from B2B social media thinker Paul Gillin who wrote a post unveiling the flaws in Klout’s ranking scheme. Instead, they object to the very notion and existence of Klout.

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Social Media News Ticker: Twitter Adds Photo Tagging, Facebook Acquires Oculus VR

The Realtime Report

Facebook takes another crack at read-it-later with “Save” button – Facebook is currently testing a new feature; the read-it-later ‘Save’ button on articles in the web News Feed allows users to create a section of bookmarked sites on their profile (TechCrunch). Any social media updates that we missed?

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Why a Social Credit Score is an Empty and Dangerous Notion

Waxing UnLyrical

I’m being challenged to a battle of egos by a stranger on Twitter: “@pierreloic your Klout Score is 33 (I’m a 51). Check out your @klout profile today.”. She’s after all “a 63″ and the Klout resident expert on all things bacon and Kim Kardashian. Guest post by Pierre-Loic Assayag. I’m glad we didn’t let it.

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Does it matter who follows you on Twitter or Facebook?

Akamai Marketing

Here’s some different ways of looking at it: The care and feeding of followers and fans. Many high-Klout folks auto-follow. So, if you are looking to increase your Klout score, find others who have high scores. So, if you are looking to increase your Klout score, find others who have high scores.

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Klout and Peerindex – social network loyalty cards?

The Way of the Web

Like a lot of people, I’m registered on both Klout and Peerindex , which both attempt to track my online influence in slightly different ways to give one overall score which can be compared to others in my areas of interest. Tancredi, headphones and promo information all via Peerindex. Measuring influence or just tracking loyalty?

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