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Klout Raises $1.5 Million To Measure Influence And Authority On Twitter
- CoachRufus87 16y agoWhat if Twitter turns this feature on internally?
- slig 16y agoYeah, right after building their own URL shortner / image host.
- smokinn 16y agoSounds like a calculated risk. While a lot of "twitter services" are simple and could probably be built by twitter themselves should they feel like it, measuring influence and authority is a hard problem requiring considerable resources that twitter is likely to prefer investing elsewhere.
- seldo 16y agoCongratulations guys! Our offices are in the same room as Klout, and they are good peeps.
- riffraff 16y agoas a non-native english, honest question: does "room" also means something else from "some space with walls around it", or you actually have a very large room?
- steveklabnik 16y agoAs a native speaker, it doesn't mean something else than "some space with walls around it." I'd imagine that they work in some sort of shared office space. My startup's office, for example, is on a loft with 4 or 5 other companies all around us.
- seldo 16y agoIt's literally the same room. It's not even a very large room; Klout is only 6 people. Also in the same room are Flowtown, Plancast, and Publitweet -- we're on the first floor of 795 Folsom, the same building as Twitter. If you're an engineer looking for a job, our office is a GREAT place to dump your resume ;-)
- riffraff 16y agothanks for taking time to explain :)
- sachinag 16y agoHa, I love that CrunchBase has the updated logo but the post itself does not. Congrats, folks!
- jayair 16y agoCongrats guys!
- sidmitra 16y agoInteresting that this happened around the same time as http://trst.me/ http://trst.me/
- coderdude 16y agoEven more interesting is that trst.me has more (or more up-to-date) data and probably didn't require $1.5MM in funding.
- waterlesscloud 16y agoThey seem the best of the Twitter influence measuring services. They've clearly put thought into what actually matters. Glad to see them moving ahead.