In the meantime, for those of you who care about things like this: hooray, your score just went up today thanks to Google+!
Although people have been able to add Google+ to their Klout profiles since September, the company announced today that Google+ is now directly impacting Klout scores.
The service has begun measuring the influence for users who have already connected their Google+ accounts to Klout and, of those, 62% are considered “active” users of the social network. For these active users, their Klout scores should have increased based on the popularity of their public Google+ posts.
Those who have added Google+ but are not active on the network will not see a drop, however. In other words, there’s no penalty for not using Google+, which seems fair, given that the network’s true influence and importance is still debatable.
After calculating the score changes, the median score change for active G+ connected users is 0.4742 and the mean score change is 2.1577. Klout notes that some people who really embraced Google+ as a platform saw their score jump up as much as 40+ points. Users who are active on all three top social networks (Google+, Twitter and Facebook combined) will likely see smaller score increases as opposed to those who are only active on two of the three (i.e., Facebook and G+ or Twitter and G+). But for the most part, active Google+ users, who tend to have scores ranging from 30 to 60, will see a score increase of 2.177 today.
Source: http://techcrunch.com/2011/11/22/google-now-impacting-klout-scores-active-users-see-scores-go-up/
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