Klout was an utter blight among influencer culture (I still can't believe I wrote those two words with a straight face) On the tail end of my limited time blog

Klout was an utter blight among influencer culture (I still can't believe I wrote those two words with a straight face) On the tail end of my limited time blogging in the earlier part of this decade, I'd interacted with enough bloggers in conference press rooms to get a feel for how much people in these circles covet(ed) these metrics. I can't cite the specific publication, but one case comes to mind where a blogger reasoned with himself on using the most inflammatory language he could put together in a series of tweets to boost metrics and his klout score, specifically.