An actor's Klout number: What does it mean?
I attended a SAG workshop a couple of weeks ago where a recent arrival from New York City was adamant that an actor’s Klout number was now checked by every casting person in NY and Los Angeles and that it was entering into the decision to hire. I queried my agent about this and she said her talent in LA talked about it a lot. They told her it is a number that tells how well you are doing in the acting business. Famous actors have a large number; new talent much, much smaller. Actors have to work their way up the ladder, they said - work hard, get great roles - to increase their numbers. The SAG actress who insisted it was a big deal said she had 2,500 Twitter followers and a 28 Klout number, which she said was pretty good. Well I decided to run a test using my Twitter account, because I had until then seldom tweeted anything and had only 4 followers. I started out with an 11 Klout number and within a week had manipulated it up to 31, simply by replying to tweets from large ...