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Klouchebag Site Mocks Klout By Measuring Twitter ‘Asshattery'

The Huffington Post  |  By Posted: 04/27/2012 5:14 pm Updated: 04/27/2012 5:14 pm

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A new site called Klouchebag measures your social media influence in a different way.

Tired of hearing colleagues and friends celebrate their Klout score? Well, now there's a new site that might help put them in their place.

Londoner Tom Scott has come up with a parody spinoff to the social media scorecard, PC Magazine reports.

Dubbed "Klouchebag," the site gives Twitter users a 1-100 score based on four metrics, including anger, retweet abuse, social apps and English misuse.

Within seconds, the site spits out a 1-100 score describing your online influence. The higher the score, the bigger jerk you are on Twitter.

The site also provides humorous phrases to describe online behavior, from "A Bit Of A Prat," or for the less offensive, "Mostly Alright."

Scott first got the idea after reading a Wired profile on Klout.

"I'd been annoyed with the idea of Klout for a while, and that [article] crystallized it," he told the Huffington Post.

About 24 hours later, he'd registered the domain name and built the site in just a couple of hours.

While Klouchebag's aim clearly isn't to become a Klout rival, Scott hopes it will help people to stop putting so much thought into what he calls an "arbitrary" score and "ever-changing system."

"Imagine if all that time went into actually making interesting things, or caring about the people around you," he said.

In honor of the newly launched Klouchebag site, take a look at some entertaining tweets from users below.

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Tired of hearing colleagues and friends celebrate their Klout score? Well, now there's a new site that might help put them in their place. Londoner Tom Scott has come up with a parody spinoff to th...
Tired of hearing colleagues and friends celebrate their Klout score? Well, now there's a new site that might help put them in their place. Londoner Tom Scott has come up with a parody spinoff to th...
 
 
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spanprof11
cogito ergo sum
07:54 PM on 05/29/2012
Have a Nice Day:):)
06:34 PM on 05/07/2012
Her accent was driving me crazy? Why does her every sentence sounds like a question? The valley girls are invading?
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Anella Harmeyer
Far left leaning Democrat. Strong believer in huma
04:48 PM on 04/28/2012
I got a 61. That can't be good.
06:58 PM on 04/28/2012
I'm a 53 on this one.....pretty douchy - but..............

On my other one - for my biz - I'm an 8!!!

SWEET!
12:16 PM on 04/28/2012
The social media is getting pretty scary. Society is losing itself to online personalities that are not real. Why is online influence so important now that it has to be measured.

Of course I am not a fan of twitter or Facebook. I like real people and like to talk face to face. I feel that if you do not meet people face to face and have at least that in a relationship they are not "friends" but are at best acquaintances. Then online personalities can be extremely misleading and go so far as dangerous.

Now we are measuring Klout and people are taking this serious and we wonder what is wrong with society.
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Johnangry
Outrageous statements spark good convo!!
10:35 AM on 04/29/2012
Face2face communications? Is that a new program and is it available on I-phone?
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unbozo
05:12 AM on 04/28/2012
Hmmm. What's that saying takes one to know one? So I'm guessing Tom Scott knows them all?
02:16 AM on 04/28/2012
66. To be fair, I RT mostly stuff from HuffPost, CNN, etc. But the anger stuff is spot on.
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Winston Sih
12:37 AM on 04/28/2012
I'm actually afraid to see what my score is!
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ResearchtheFacts
Alert, awake & paying attention to the details.
11:24 PM on 04/27/2012
It told me quite a nice person
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elicourey
It takes a nation of millions to hold me back!
07:04 PM on 04/27/2012
it says I'm "quite a nice person" :-)
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abuckley23
Published author. Visit me at Planet Kibi!
06:12 PM on 04/27/2012
I got 30 out of a hundred and it told me I was 'a bit of a prat'.

I can live with that.
02:35 PM on 04/30/2012
I'm right there with you. Howdy, fellow prat.

I have yet to find anyone that I searched for that had less than about 25 for English misuse. Funny thing to score on a medium that begs for abbreviations and short cuts.