Interesting article in the NY Times about the rise of influence scoring by companies like Klout and Peer Index.
Basically, these sites give people grades based on how effective they are at influencing followers to act on their recommendations. Klout, for the moment, only uses Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn to compile its score.
Some in the article say that this is tantamount to creating a online social caste system. I think this is stretching it a bit. I'd guess that uncertainties about the scoring methodologies combined with the the fact that 95% of people will probably end up in the average score range, will not make this as intrusive to our daily lives as people anticipate.
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