My Klout score dropped 13 points yesterday!
Why?
Because when I decided to connect the new Facebook page of my fledgling business, Klout took it upon itself to switch me from an “individual influencer” to a “brand influencer”, replacing my substantial personal Facebook activity with my nearly non-existent Facebook page activity.
Maybe it told me it was going to do this, but not nearly clearly and obviously enough if it did – I certainly didn’t notice anything telling me the potential consequences.
Forewarned is fore-armed. Don’t make the same mistake I did!
I’ve been reluctant to connect FB with my Fan Page because the permission prompt says they want access to ALL the fan pages I manage and that’s just not necessary.
I just wrote a post about the problems with Klout. Glad to be warned about your mishap.
What’s Killing Klout? What About Other Reputation Systems? uber.la/2012/01/killing-klout/
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John McElhenney
OUCH! Yes, I’ve experienced the same problem. All you need to do is disconnect your fan page and reconnect your personal page, contact Klout & let them know. It might take a couple of days, but your score will be back to normal. Klout & FB already don’t play well together, but when we start switching which page we want connected, that really throws them for a loop.
I have to piggyback on the “OUCH!” provided by knikkolette! That’s no good! 😉
Klout is quite controversial these days.
You have some excellent insight given above. All good people! 🙂
~Keri
When I saw they wanted access to ALL the fan pages I manage I was like NO, that is not just my stuff there. Wondering if Klout has thought to talk to use ( some ardent loyal users) before they roll out this changes.
I also experienced this, and a massive drop in my klout score. It took a couple hours of trying to get it to recognize my personal page again! Finally it took it and a day or so later my score was back. Definitely a royal PITA!
The good news is, Klout score is a worthless metric that can be easily manipulated and you have no need to attempt to get a high one.
That has happened to me before with YouTube. I have a small YouTube channel with a few videos. I connected it to Klout and my score plummeted. Yikes! I unlinked YouTube and my score recovered.
Intuitively it doesn’t make sense that adding a place where people might find you hurts your Klout score, but that’s exactly what happens.
Thanks so much for the warning!
For crying out loud! That happened to me too, thank you for posting this ~ I’ve disconnected Facebook altogether.
OK< Seems I've joined the list. Happened to me twice: the first time when I added a new Google+ account. Took it back off. Then recently when I clicked to attach my Facebook Page. But I changed my mind and didn't change it. A couple days later I logged in to find the dive and indeed, it changed me from a personal influencer to brand influencer. Got it fixed but heck!
Just for giggles and grins, I unattached my facebook account to see what would happen. It’s bee a few days so I logged in. Seems my Kout score has “held steady” at 52.48 for the past 90 days! weird. I connected it back tonight. You can see the difference here when you read this comment. klout.com/#/loriruff