Has anyone used klout?.

[Aikijeff]

I've come across http://klout.com and would lot know if anyone uses this and to what benefit?

[MattAntonino]

I've heard some people use it on job applications for marketing type jobs but never "used" it for anything myself.  I do login once in awhile to see if there are any good perks but most are for things I wouldn't necessarily use.  I think the scores are being built into Bing now so perhaps for that small portion of searches done on Bing it makes sense but otherwise, not sure why someone would use it.

[Andisue]

Yes I have and it has now become another one of those fun (annoying) trying to out rank friends and colleagues game..I must say its the first thing I do every morning is to check my Klout score.

[Stramark]

If you are trying to find active and influential people on twitter and other social media. You could try to follow those that have a high ranking and have certain keywords in their BIO. This way you can follow people more easy.

Socialbro has this feature. and some of the other follow people on twitter services