Social Media and its influence

Whether you like it not, Klout, Kred, PeerIndex, and Radian6 are measuring your social capital -- not your influence but your potential for it.

===> For the world’s social media users: accept that you’re already being indexed by these services, and they’re going to sell data about you. <===

‘Influence’ scores are going to become more important with time. Once they reach a threshold of accuracy, you can bet a new wave of brands will start rewarding and providing better service to people identified as influencers...