Klout is releasing a new series of topics pages that will highlight who are the most influential people online, based on their Klout social influence scores, across scores of topics. If this catches on, it could be an important tool for people to find experts who are influential about various topics.
Mashable reports that Klout will roll out the feature for all users within a few days.
“This is a big step for us in turning Klout into more of a utility around search and discover instead of pure vanity of checking your score,” Klout CEO Joe Fernandez tellsMashable. “Our goal is just to understand what they are influential about and who they influence.”
To populate a user’s Topic Pages (see screenshots below), the San Francisco-based startup analyzes the user’s content created across the 10 services it measures — Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Foursquare, YouTube, Blogger, Flickr, Instagram, Last.fm and Tumblr.
“We then look by topic at how influential that person’s audience is about the topic and how they respond to rank the most influential people by topic. These rankings change daily based on the content created,” Fernandez says.
