Foursquare and YouTube power users rejoice: Your Klout is now recognized
August 5, 2011 by admin
Filed under Choosing Lingerie
If location-based check-in service Foursquare is your social media poison of choice, then your Klout score is likely to rise substantially.
Klout, a site that measures a person’s influence based on social media activity from Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn, announced today that its adding Foursquare to the list of social services that will determine person’s Klout Score.
Active users that provide useful Tips — short messages associated with a specific location that pop up when Foursquare followers check-in — to their favorite venues (locations), which have a major impact on how people make purchases.
“The importance of tips for a venue cannot be underestimated. Tips are loved by users and change what customers want,” the company states in a blog post. Two-thirds of active Foursquare users leave tips and 80 percent of them have utilized a tip from someone else, according to Klout’s observations.
The company also added the ability to link YouTube accounts to a Klout profile. Activity on YouTube won’t affect the overall Klout score at this time, according to the company. It will be interesting to find out which behaviors Klout identifies as influential for YouTube usage.
The addition of Foursquare by itself strengthens the credibility of a person’s Klout score by providing a more accurate assessment of influence. So, it’s to Klout’s advantage to integrate additional social networks (like Instagram and eventually Google+) into its influence measurement in the future — especially since not being active on networks you don’t use doesn’t count against your score.
What social network do you wish was included in Klout’s influence measurement?
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Tags: influence, Klout score, location-based social networking
