Klout is out—social media mojo-ranking service to shutter

You will no longer be able to throw your Klout score around… did anyone really do that?

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[Saikaici]

My only previous encounter with it was the xkcd comic about it - https://xkcd.com/1057/

So good riddance.

 

[Saikaici]

During the brief interactions I had with Klout, I found that they managed to combine the comically incorrect with the frighteningly accurate.

A mix between "seriously? why do you think I'm an expert in that topic, when I only mentioned once it in passing?" and "woah. How the hell did they know that I've got knowledge in that topic when I make a point of never discussing it anywhere on social media?"

How much of that is firing a shotgun into a birdcage? You're gonna miss most of the pellets, but some are bound to hit.