There's a new Klout professor in town. Ryan Thornburg is basing twenty percent of his students' grades on how much they can raise their Klout score. Unfortunately for the kids, that means they're shooting blindly into the ether and hoping for the best. So far, it's barely working.
By most human accounts, Sweden's latest social experiment of letting random Swedes control the country's official Twitter account has been a bit of disaster after of Sonja Abrahamsson, a topless-appearing 27-year-old shared her curiosity about Jews. But if you ask number-crunching robots, it's been a huge success.
Klouchebag.com, a new parody of Klout, is the most entertaining expression we've seen of the growing backlash against the clout-measuring service's recent spate of media attention.
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