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"Klout, the startup tracking social media users' influence across 10 different networks, has calculated scores for more than 100 million people, the company announced Wednesday.\n\"One hundred million people with Klout Scores means that there are 100 million voices effectively leveraging the social web to share their opinions, hopes and dreams and shaping the decisions of the billions of people now listening to them,\" Klout co-founder and CEO Joe Fernandez says of the milestone.\nTo be clear, Klout has yet to sign up 100 million service users. Instead the startup measures the influence of its users and their social network friends by association, as pulled in via social graphs on Twitter, Facebook and recently added networks such as Instagram, Foursquare and LinkedIn.\nStill, now that Klout is tracking the scores of more than 100 million people on the web, the startup can solidify its place as the de facto measurement tool for influence online and appeal to even more brands and marketers looking to locate and leverage their most socially persuasive fans and customers.\nFernandez says Klout will begin to incorporate additional networks in the months ahead \u2014 the startup has already expressed interest in assessing users' influence on Google+. \"We intend to find influence wherever it exists,\" Fernandez says."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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