Klout is a company that provides social media analytics to measure a user’s influence across his or her social network. The analysis is done on data taken from sites such as Twitter, Facebook, and Google+, and measures the size of a person’s network, the content created, and purports to measure how other people interact with that content. (Source: WikiPedia)
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| Type of business | Subsidiary |
|---|---|
Type of site | Social Networking |
| Available in | English |
| Headquarters | , United States |
| Area served | Worldwide |
| Owner | Lithium Technologies |
| Founder(s) | Joe Fernandez Binh Tran |
| Key people | Joe Fernandez (CEO) Emil Michael (COO) |
| Employees | 40 |
| URL | klout |
| Advertising | No |
| Registration | Optional |
| Launched | 2008 |
| Current status | Closed |
Klout was a website and mobile app that used social media analytics to rate its users according to online social influence via the "Klout Score", which was a numerical value between 1 and 100. In determining the user score, Klout measured the size of a user's social media network and correlated the content created to measure how other users interact with that content. Klout launched in 2008.
Lithium Technologies, who acquired the site in March 2014, closed the service on May 25, 2018.
Klout used Bing, Facebook, Foursquare, Google+, Instagram, LinkedIn (individuals' pages, not corporate/business), Twitter, Wikipedia, and YouTube[citation needed] data to create Klout user profiles that were assigned a unique "Klout Score". Klout scores ranged from 1 to 100, with higher scores corresponding to a higher ranking of the breadth and strength of one's online social influence. While all Twitter users were assigned a score, users who registered at Klout could link multiple social networks, of which network data was then aggregated to influence the user's Klout Score.
