Online Infoolence - Klout
May 28 2012 08:30:00 AM
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Last week I tweeted about Klout-bombing: the act of ganging up on a friend and having lots of people +K them on a really silly or embarrassing skill. At the time I didn't know that the term was already being used, and people were doing it for things like hurting political campaigns. Several people asked me about the impact it could have, so I thought I'd try a little experiment. I'd appreciate it if you could +K me in two topics. The first is Social Media, which is (arguably) something I have some understanding of. The second is Popcorn, a topic which to the best of my knowledge I have no online influence over! I'd like to see how these two different +Ks affect my score. So, if you could, please visit http://klout.com/#/alanlepo/topics and +K away. I'd appreciate it if you could extend the request to your circles as well. Obviously I'll share the results. Happy Klouting.
BTW, I'm thinking other good terms could be Klout-jacking or Infoolencing.
Done :-)
But in my understanding Klout-Bombing would be diffucult except for those cases were you have a big number of people to participate.
Usually you can give only on +K per Topic at a time and it's then locked fpr a few days until you can +K this topic again.
But hey, it already seems that you have a high expertise in the topic of Popcorn ;-)
Thank you Harald. Yes, I assume it takes a lot to affect the results.
We played around with this before. While the score is hard to affect, the ranking leads to other things like perks and it showing higher in topics for the person when viewing their profile. Useless info basically.
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thanks for help