"By now if you haven’t heard of Klout and in a moment of vanity checked your own Klout score, you’re in the online minority. "<p>I have not checked my Klout score, and indeed until just now had no idea what Klout actually was. When I looked at Klout's homepage, it requires a Twitter account to search for someone. I don't use Twitter and I know I'm not the only one, so I think this is pretty bogus as far as a reputation measurement goes.<p>I don't know how how this guy has decided that means I'm in an online minority, but I do know that his Bartonphink score just took a dip.
When and if Klout (or something like it) becomes as ubiquitous as this article predicts, then we should expect a giant upsurge in inane tweet-farming around professional topics. I don't see how anyone benefits from the world thus created.<p>Would much rather live in a Klout + Quora world than a Klout + Twitter world.