As my regular readers know, I’m a pretty humble person. My regular readers know that because they are my parents. I like to lead a fairly quiet life and I contemplate all sorts of issues before forming opinions on them. I’ve never tried to push my beliefs on anyone, because I know we’re all people, and we all take dumps the same way.
Then I realized I was more influential than the pope. That’s right, I influence more people than Pope Benedict XVI, the vicar or Rome. I’m not having a John Lennon moment, I just know this because Klout.com told me so. Klout is a site that, for free, tracks and grades your influence on social media sites like Twitter, Facebook and Google+. How Klout arrives at the score is anyone’s guess, but based on my observations, if you have a Twitter account, you automatically have 10, and people and brands have reached scores in the 80s and 90s.
I am a 50, and the pope’s confirmed account is a 48. That means that I influence more people than the leader of the roughly 1 billion Catholics that walk the Earth. At least online. Continue reading The McBournie Minute: I’m more popular than the pope