Klout is Odious ⇥

Nelson Minar:

As with most social media you and I aren’t the customers of Klout, we are the product. Only with Klout you can’t opt out of being packaged and sold.

That’s pretty horrible. I also have a profile on Klout that I never created nor want. There doesn’t seem to be a way to remove it either.

I suppose that there’s no harm, per se. It’s an external catalogue of my public Twitter feed and the topics I write about. But somehow it feels wrong that they’re able to hijack that information for no other reason than to target ads.