In short, you can be an idiot and Klout can rate you high if you have
enough social media contacts, daft.
It reminds me of a job interview back in the late 1980s. I was working with a government department and applied for a job as a supervisor working with a specialist program that the department used. The head interview told me at the interview I wasn't getting the job as I hadn't worked in her section before and thus couldn't know enough about the program to be a supervisor. I withdraw my application and told her boss, in front of her that I wasn't prepared to work for such an idiot as it was obvious she'd never bothered to read my application. She hit the roof. her boss was angry until I mentioned that his boss had asked me to apply, and if either bothered to check my application of the program they'd see I was one of the two people who wrote the damn thing.
Both the Klout issue and that interview come down to preconceived misconceptions that have absolutely no bearing on the realities of the situation or a person's capabilities. How can a highly competent person who works in an organisation that doesn't allow high involvement with social media sites get a good Klout score? They can't, and the same for one who works where the Internet access is not that good.
Bloody social media is way overrated and too many brain dead morons thinks it means something.
