Under the new Klout rating system, I just went from a 49 to a 63. Apparently, this means that I should expect better customer service than other people because I am very fearsome and influential. Also, too, I can expect other perks.
• A marketing executive with 15 years of experience in the business lost out on a job because his Klout score was too low. His was 34. The job went to a candidate with a Klout score of 67.
• At a Las Vegas resort, hotel clerks checked the Klout scores of guests at check-in. Those with high Klout scores got their rooms upgraded. The special treatment paid off when the hotel jumped from 17th to 3rd place in number of Facebook Friends and has one of the highest Klout scores of any Las Vegas hotel.
• A software company checks the Klout scores of those who post complaints on Twitter or Facebook. Those with higher scores, one would imagine, get quicker treatment and responses.
• An online gift shopping site offers discounts scaled to shoppers’ Klout scores.
So, apparently, it’s cool to live in your parents’ basement and eat Cheetos in your pajamas all day long. You can be treated like you’re Frank Sinatra. This is weird and stupid.
“This is weird and stupid.”
I love you for saying this.
I can’t wait to try out the “…do you know who I AM? I have a Klout score of 63!” routine. Should be good for a giggle.
Did you connect both your FB and Twitter accounts? Because I only did Twitter, and have a 50.
yes, and Google.
Living in a basement, he figured with the hot weather it would be nice to take a dip in the sea.
ya gotta love the irony:
har!
I agree that it is weird and stupid. But not any more so than most other reasons that people get preferential treatment.
A short exercise. Which is weirder and stupider?
Person A: Lives in their parents’ basement. Enjoys Cheetos and Funyuns (immensely, I might add). Spends 18 hours / day looking a screen, whether that be watching popular TV shows, playing video games, or dicking around on social networking sites. Is creative or funny enough that thousands of people who have never met person A in real life reliably read, forward, and retweet a large amount of person A’s original material. Person A gets premier seating at theaters and discounts on hotel rooms because of their popularity.
Person B: Born into a rich family. Gets into a well known and highly regarded university, and floats through due more to family influence than mental acuity or ability. Eventually runs for Congress, and fails. Eventually is owner of a baseball team, and fails at that too. Is popular with friends and strangers alike, who frequently enjoy sharing brews and nose-powders with Person B. Eventually lands a job ruining poor people’s lives, ordering military incursions into countries whose names he can’t even pronounce, and creating an economic wealth redistribution engine that would leave Robin Hood both impressed and horrified.
You can probably guess who Person B is.
Are you accusing me of liking Funyuns or saying I should be president?
Cuz Funyuns are for suckers.
Relevant:
“So, apparently, it’s cool to live in your parents’ basement and eat Cheetos in your pajamas all day long.”
Come to think of it, we don’t actually know that you live in your own house and have a family, do we?
Nope. I am disguised by my Sam’s Club supply of cheese puffs.
I just logged in there with Facebook to see what you were talking about. Mine went from 49 to 61. I can feel the increased power down to my toes. So now it may be worthwhile to go on living </snark>
Right?
Now you can dispense with politeness and courtesy!!
I was just trying to be funny and agree with your assessment of the service and what it represents. Obviously I failed.
Apologies.
I got your joke. I was being sarcastic.
LOL. The Intertubz iz hard!
I guess I have zero Klout because I have neother a facebook nor twitter account and no desire for either.
Damn, Soledad O’Brien is kicking azz and taking names!
Pawlenty suggests that Soledad O’Brien doesn’t understand English
“Romney surrogates going up against CNN host Soledad O’Brien clearly haven’t learned their lesson.
A day after former New Hampshire Gov. John Sununu angrily told O’Brien to “put an Obama bumper sticker on your forehead,” former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, Mitt Romney’s national campaign co-chair, suggested that the CNN host didn’t understand English.
During an interview on Wednesday, O’Brien told Pawlenty that one of the presumptive Republican presidential candidate’s ads falsely claimed that President Barack Obama had cut $716 billion from Medicare — but the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) had determined that it was actually reduction in spending, not benefits.
“Isn’t that just patently untrue in that ad?” she asked the former Minnesota governor. “No, that’s not correct, Soledad,” Pawlenty replied. “It is absolutely beyond factual dispute that [Obama] has cut $716 billion out of the money that was projected to be spent on Medicare over the next 10 years.”
“But, sir, it’s not a cut in Medicare, right?” O’Brien observed. “Let me just read from the CBO. It’s a `permanent reduction in the annual updates to Medicaid’s payment rates.’ It’s a cut in the spending — future spending. And it’s cut that actually goes to insurers, right? I mean, it’s not cuts to individuals.”
“No matter how you say this, it’s a cut to Medicare,” Pawlenty insisted. “You can’t even with a straight face, look your viewers in the eye and tell [them] that it’s not a cut to Medicare.”
“Well, I can’t look viewers in the eye from where I am,” O’Brien pointed out. “I’m saying the way the CBO puts it. … That is a savings.”
“Do you know what that is in English?” Pawlenty quipped.
“I speak English incredibly well, sir, as you know,” O’Brien shot back. “So, tell me what it is in English.”…[keep reading in the article]
It’s hilarious watching the Repubs try to hide behind what they call technically true: that Obama cut $716 million. Unfortunately WaPo recently reinforced that for them.
But they lie by omission. They are trying to get the ill informed to believe this is a cut in medicare benefits or somehow hurts the future of the Medicare program.
Saw the Sununu clip, she was great.
plus ca change…