"Lies, damn lies and statistics|

OK, now so now i have a profile up on Klout.

So What?

I know I am not a very frequent poster to Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Flickr, Instagram or FourSquare, but that's OK. Based on my posts and the people who interact with me, Klout assigns me a score of 30 (out of a maximum of 100). Whatever.

Looking around at scores of some other "people" I notice that a twitter account with only one tweet, ever, in it's time line*, gets a score of 78. Then I know that Klout is just more of lies, damn lies and statistics.

I recall that there was some noise about Klout scores over on twitter a couple of weeks ago. Where people where concerned about how high they ranked in Klout. Apparently they didn't get Rule number 1 about Social Media: "It's about being Social" (i.e. not about influence).


*) All three of the "Long Cat" twitter accouns, which where created because somebody got clever with the three "avatars" so that they combine into a single picture.

Update December 14, 2011 I have deleted my Klout account a couple of weeks ago...