Klout just recently added an option allowing us to suggest topics for our friends and contacts to share +K on Klout. They claim it’s to let us have more control over out topics. I gave up when they suggested “Lambs” as a topic of influence for me long ago….
I have enjoyed punking my friends, by giving them +K forsomething innocuous like “blogging” but tweeting “I gave John Doe +K for puppy snuff films” or “I gave Suzy +K for underwater prostitution”…..you get the idea.
So, when my twitter pal Jim (@leaderswest) gave me +K last week for the topic of “Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics” I thought he was getting me back for last month’s +K for baby porn…..turns out, the Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics was a REAL catagory now!! And, checking back, I noticed that HE had “David Hasselhoff” as a topic of interest on his Klout page as well….
Turns out, you can’t just make up the topics: they are suggested by Klout. Here is a sampling, and NO I am NOT making this up!!
underwater football (sports)Underwater Archaeology (field Of Study)
Iraqi Scientific Humanitarian Committee (political Party) ←-sure to get you on the FBI watchlist
Euthanasia
Bullshit (game)
Party Of Separated And Divorced (political Party)
Administration Of Air And Water Resource And Solid Waste Management Programs (industry)
Sucker Punch
Know Nothing (political Party)
European Gay Porn Awards
Cookie Monster
Ahahahaha! I love your prank tweets! That is fabulous! (I should’ve thought of that! lol)
Honestly, I see the tweets, but I have no clue whatsoever about Klout. I guess one of these days I should catch up. It is just sooooo 2010…
Uhh.. who wouldn’t want to be influential about the Cookie Monster?!
I want to be influential about money, and hope there is a Klout perk where they give it away!!
Bizarrely, I am influential about Unicorns and Irony – more strange still, the former is from before topic addition was opened!
Yeah, I’ve been influential about lambs fo a LONG time…..and oddly enough, so is Mariah Carey!! I guess she calls her fans lambs!!
Just checked my Klout score – its just 29. Can I influence “getting a higher Klout score?”
Worth a try!!
This is great, I understand Klout better now…lol!!
Glad U could help!!
Klout says I’m influential about ice cream. It’s because of my quote “Live without love is like a cone with no ice cream” haha :O)
I’m still trying to figure out how Klout works. I have beer in my topis though so its a start.
I would love a +K in “Know Nothing.”
Lets try sucker punch
What were the circumstances that you found that “European Gay Porn Awards” was an available topic?
I’ll never tell….some things are better left unsaid, Jim!!
Believe it or not I do actually know someone who is an expert in underwater archaeology! I got told that Sheffield was one of my topics. Haven’t been there in about 10 years. Confused.
Oh, sign me up for Cookie Monster. I did just watch the Sesame Street episode on Cake Boss
Once upon a time in Kloutland, I, too, was influential in lambs. Alas, it appears the little ones got the flock outa here, and now the Klout has scored me accordingly. I spend my days and nights wondering, perhaps obsessing over, what I could have done differently. But to no avail. No lambs, no influence. Take heart, fair BethMcshane. I have moved on to greener pastures. Soon, I will be influential in a new topic — I will be a rising star in the topic of yaks! Or maybe not…
I think I know where to spend some of my +K today….. ::P
Hope that you can hit me up with some special k in the topics of “Weddings” “Music” “DJs” or “Hip Hop”… I’ll take a pass on the underwater prostitution – I gave that up years ago!
Will do!!