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HOW TO: Increase Your Klout Score

By: Garin Kilpatrick

Klout has netted two rounds of investment totaling $10 million, which is why I am surprised that their site has been a bit glitchy for me to use.

Despite the glitches in the past I find that Klout is working great now and has given me a few different ways to re-discover people in my network and increase my influence.

My Klout score is 72 and Klout calls me a “Thought Leader,” which is cool.  At first I thought 72 was a low score, but then when I compared my score to some business leaders I was surprised to find that most people on my twitter list of influential people scored lower than me.

I saw a tweet from Jay Goldman several months ago complimenting the fact that more and more digital professionals are including their Klout score on their resume.  Turns out your Klout score can help you net a job!

Since Klout claims to be the standard for influence I thought it would be interesting to see how some of the people from my Twitter influencers list stacked up.

The first surprising Klout score I found was from Twitter co-founder @ev.  Despite having almost 1.4 million followers Evan is still six points behind me.

Evan has 6,300+ tweets compared to my 8,800+.  The difference between us is that I probably have more retweets, since I position my tweets and content for maximum retweetability, whereas Evan is probably not trying to get as many retweets as possible.