Klout is a tool that attempts to measure online influence across the social web – it looks at factors such as Twitter use, Facebook, and social interactions amongst friends/followers/retweets/Likes and so on… based on these measurements everyone gets a Klout score, a number that (in theory) reflects the relative amount of influence that someone has on the web.
For kicks I spent some time and checked the Klout score of a bunch of well-known photographers; let’s see how they ranked according to their Klout influence score… here’s their name, Klout score and Twitter bio:
| Scott Bourne | 69 | Host – Photofocus Podcast, Publisher Photofocus.com, CEO Bourne Media Group – Founder Netradio/First-TV, photographer, author, teacher, speaker, food lover  |
| Thomas Hawk | 69 | Quiet Observer of Modern Nihilism with Box that Captures Light |
| Trey Ratcliff | 69 | A warm-hearted, old-school gentleman explorer with really cool toys. |
| Jack Hollingsworth | 68 | world, travel, lifestyle, stock photographer. Social Media coach and consultant to photographers. Husband. Father. Austinite |
| Jerome Shaw | 63 | #Photographer Traveler Teacher #Writer Lover of hoppy #beer, #chocolate, #travel, strong #coffee, occasionally #wine, too infrequently women & always song |
| Trevor Current | 60 | Photographer, Graphic Designer, Gadget Lover – Bringing you the latest photography news, tips, tools and reviews for beginner through professional photographers |
| Scott Wyden | 60 | New Jersey Portrait, Travel and Life Photographer |
| Nicole Young | 60 | Photographer, author … poet, dreamer. I enjoy long walks with my camera, pushing pixels in Photoshop & talking geek by a crackling fire. Art makes me happy. |
| Jim Goldstein | 59 | Professional Photographer / Web Strategist: Capturing the worlds beauty one photo at a time. Photographer of landscapes, nature and anything beautiful |
| Scott Kelby | 59 | Photoshop and photography book author and instructor. President and CEO of Nat’l Assn. of Photoshop Professionals. |
| Aaron Hockley * | 57 | Photographer, blogger, and geek. Helping photographers understand the new media world. Say hi… let’s talk! |
| Rosh Sillars | 52 | I’m a photographer, co-author of the book Linked Photographer, blogger, podcaster, speaker, Synectics Media consultant, Univ. instructor Bio – www.rosh.com |
| Lindsay Adler | 51 | Lindsay Adler is an energetic/passionate portrait and fashion photographer based in NY. Loves making art and teaching photo worldwide! Author of 2 photo books! |
| Duncan Davidson | 51 | Photographer, Author, Hacker, Traveller. Business Owner. I refuse to do just one thing. |
| Scott Jarvie | 50 | [Full time Photographer] Personal acct where I talk abt mostly photography BUT even non-photography stuff. (@JarvieU is only photography) |
| Frederick Van Johnson | 50 | Photographer, Blogger, Instructor, and Host – This Week in Photography Podcast (TWiP) |
| Steve Simon | 46 | Obsessed with documentary photography and all things photographic |
What do you think? Is this an accurate ranking of online photography influence? Think the Klout algorithm is flawed? Think the whole idea of measuring social influence is a bunch of crap? Leave your thoughts below.
Random footnotes/disclaimers/explanations: rankings were as of February 23, 2010 around 7pm PST. Inclusion on the list was totally subjective based on whom I perceived as influential social photo types.
* included for comparative purposes. Pretty sure several of those names below me are “bigger”
