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Klout is a what I'd call 'crawlybumlick' social kind of gamification that assigns you a score based on how "influential" you are online.

Barf.

I got sucked in early last year and did believe it showed promise for business accounts to help gauge social engagement, but the way it's 'scores' are made and continued direction it's taken (and as the maker of fun poking site Klouchebag Tom Scott, and time has pointed out), it really has became an incredibly vain, pointless piece of douchebaggery and essentially desperate spamming drivel.

I'm closing my accounts as real influence is something you earn, not something you get points for.