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Given that I know very little about Krout, perhaps you could explain why you participated in the first place. I don't wish to sound rude; I'm genuinely interest
by Jabbles 13y ago
Given that I know very little about Krout, perhaps you could explain why you participated in the first place. I don't wish to sound rude; I'm genuinely interested in what exactly you did, and why you thought it was worth doing.
Basically, can you expand on:
"A vaguely plausible "score" that you can use to justify your "investment" in tweeting all day long."
Thanks
- edent 13y agoI didn't participate. Klout hoover up public information. Are you on Twitter or Facebook? Congratulations! You are a Klout user by default! They have a score for you which they can then sell on. Sme with Kred. You don't sign up - they just assume passive consent.
- Jabbles 13y agoAh, I see - wow. Things make more sense. Thanks.
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- ldng 13y agoHow come ?! This is blatantly illegal in Europe ! I genuinely really don't see how they could get passive consent unless FB and Twitter themselves give them access. Or they just scrap public profiles ?
- uxwtf 13y agoWhy is it illegal in Europe? Klout analyses your Twitter interactions which are publicly visible.
- ldng 13y agoIn Europe you it's opt-in by default. You have to explicitly consent to the creation of an account as far as I understand it. So, to me, they could scrap content but not go as far as create automatically an account without your consent. Or I misunderstood something and would be glad someone explains it to me.
- talkingquickly 13y agoI don't think they create an account for you, they just compute a score based on your activity on social media accounts you already have. So if you have a twitter account, they can generate a score for the twitter user using publicly available information and then if you sign up to klout, link these existing calculations to the newly created account.
- sp332 13y agoJust public profiles.