• Mashable, Wednesday, June 15, 2011 12:21 PM

Social media influence measurer Klout has added LinkedIn connections and activities to its overall scoring system. "Klout can now assess your ability to drive action on LinkedIn, as well as appraise who you're influencing on the service, and exactly how you're influencing them," Mashable explains.

"Once you add LinkedIn from your Klout dashboard, your LinkedIn connections and activities are pooled with your Twitter and/or Facebook actions, and incorporated in your Klout score and score analysis."

As Klout CEO and co-founder Joe Fernandez explains: "It's clear that people put a huge value on their business connections, and we are thrilled to be able to include activities and connections from LinkedIn in calculating the Klout score." Still, who cares about Klout? "For starters, experimental brands and businesses are testing out programs that provide special perks to social network users with high Klout scores," according to Mashable. Meanwhile, "Klout is also now working to identify topic experts."

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