@EarlBowser – If my Klout score was a stock market chart, that reverse head and shoulders would be your signal to buy me!
#StockTraders will spot a reverse head and shoulders in the chart above. If I was a stock, you'd be buying me up!
This is a follow up article to my article, “Do Your Klout Scores Die While You’re Away?” to prove to you can indeed enjoy life without worrying too much about your Klout score. Not worrying about your Klout score too much however does not mean not worrying about it at all!
A Klout score is often used in Twitter apps to help you find “influential” people on the web. The theory goes like this: if you want to follow twitter users that know what they’re talking about, you may want to follow people with a lot of followers. Why? Because if a lot of people are following someone, you make the assumption they’re worth following. But gone are the days where that assumption is even close to being true. Nowadays, people follow people just to have them follow back in return. This scenario doesn’t exactly bring any credibility, or value, to a high follow count.
Klout attempts to remedy this by scoring your overall influence over several social media environments. Influence here is defined by the amount of people that actually talk to you and like what you have to say, not merely following you. Klout isn’t perfect by any stretch, but the value, and importance of Klout lies in the fact that many applications show your Klout score. Therefore, people are seeing your Klout score and are making a judgment about you, whether you like it or not. To find out more about Klout score and why it’s important for you to manage it, check out my article, A Brief Overview of Klout, and Why you Need it.