Klout Raises $1.5 Million To Measure Influence And Authority On Twitter

http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/28/klout-raises-1-5-million-to-measure-influence-and-authority-on-twitter/

by ashbrown • 16 years ago

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seldo2• 16 years ago

Congratulations guys! Our offices are in the same room as Klout, and they are good peeps.

riffraff2• 16 years ago

as a non-native english, honest question: does "room" also means something else from "some space with walls around it", or you actually have a very large room?

steveklabnik• 16 years ago

As a native speaker, it doesn't mean something else than "some space with walls around it." I'd imagine that they work in some sort of shared office space. My startup's office, for example, is on a loft with 4 or 5 other companies all around us.

seldo2• 16 years ago

It's literally the same room. It's not even a very large room; Klout is only 6 people. Also in the same room are Flowtown, Plancast, and Publitweet -- we're on the first floor of 795 Folsom, the same building as Twitter. If you're an engineer looking for a job, our office is a GREAT place to dump your resume ;-)

sachinag• 16 years ago

Ha, I love that CrunchBase has the updated logo but the post itself does not.

Congrats, folks!

jayair• 16 years ago

Congrats guys!

sidmitra• 16 years ago

Interesting that this happened around the same time as

http://trst.me/

coderdude• 16 years ago

Even more interesting is that trst.me has more (or more up-to-date) data and probably didn't require $1.5MM in funding.

waterlesscloud• 16 years ago

They seem the best of the Twitter influence measuring services. They've clearly put thought into what actually matters. Glad to see them moving ahead.

CoachRufus87• 16 years ago

What if Twitter turns this feature on internally?

slig• 16 years ago

Yeah, right after building their own URL shortner / image host.

smokinn• 16 years ago

Sounds like a calculated risk. While a lot of "twitter services" are simple and could probably be built by twitter themselves should they feel like it, measuring influence and authority is a hard problem requiring considerable resources that twitter is likely to prefer investing elsewhere.

Klout Raises $1.5 Million To Measure Influence And Authority On Twitter

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