Last Thursday, I signed into Klout.com.  I wanted to search a few people for an assignment and decided to give it a go myself.  I linked only my Facebook page to it.  My score came back as 10. The score is between 1-100, letting you know how much influence you have on social media.

I was far from surprised at my pathetic score.  I rarely post on my Facebook, so I was happy with my score of 10, which I suspect, in Kloutland, means,  “Hey, you put up a picture once and 4 people liked it. Hooray.  Non-social media chick, enjoy your score of 10.”

This Tuesday, 5 days later, I again visited Klout to search for someone for an assignment.  This time when I opened it, my score had jumped to 50.  I went back into my Facebook to see if I had posted something that would have boosted my score.  The last time I posted on my Facebook page was September 30th, and Tuesday was October 14th.  This made me wonder what had happened, and why had it changed.  I could understand if I had linked other social networks, but I hadn’t.  So, I decided to link one other site, and added my LinkedIn.  Nothing has changed so far, but i feel that perhaps 5 days of not doing anything may make a difference, since it did the last time.

This experiment is two fold.  First I’m testing my own and 2nd I’ve got a few others signing up to see what they get.  First, my sister (Kerry) who owns her own business and is twitter crazy with tons of followers.  Second, my friend Scott, who is a fairly famous voice actor that has some serious fans interacting on his Facebook.  Third, my friend Jane who is a local actress in Vancouver.

Initial results:

Ginny (limited user):                        50                 (Facebook & Linkedin added)

Kerry (heavy user):                             44                 (Facebook only)

Scott (1000’s of fans):                      14                 (Facebook only)

Jane (actress):                                   48                 (Facebook only)

To be continued……