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Klout's Not Deleting Profiles? Not So Fast (readwriteweb)

Klout has caught a lot of flak lately about privacy and much more. To which
they've responded by allowing users to opt-out of data collection. If you
already have a profile, the company says you can delete it. But Hollis Tibbits
of Social Media Today says that Klout isn't allowing users to delete profiles
after all. What gives?

Hollis says that he deleted his Klout profile, then went back and signed up
again with his Twitter handle. Tibbits says that the "only logical conclusion
is that Klout kept all my profile information and account linkages."

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Is that the only logical conclusion? I contacted Klout today to find out. I
spoke to Tyler Singletary, who's a developer evangelist for Klout. Singletary
says, "we really are deleting the profiles, and we really are deleting the
auth data" that allows Klout to connect to the social networks.

If that's so, how is Tibbits getting a profile that shows all the past data?
Singletary says that social networks provide data to Klout in different ways.
Services like Twitter give Klout past data when you sign up, not just data
from that point forward. So Klout is able to refill ...

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