Matchmaking service Tawkify now considers users’ Klout scores when pairing them with each other for phone dates.
Tawkify rolled out in January to set up singles, but on Monday, the service added a new twist to its matchmaking methods: connecting people with similar Klout scores.
Tawkify co-creator E. Jean Carroll, a long-time advice columnist for Elle magazine and former Saturday Night Live writer, believes a person’s influence on the web is just as important as a profile photo.
That’s why Tawkify is partnering with Klout, which measures people’s influence on Twitter, Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn and Foursquare to assign scores from 0 to 100.
“People with high Klout scores know how to listen and know how to react; they’re cute, smart and connected,” Carroll, 69. “It’s as powerful as someone’s height or weight.”
To use Tawkify, a person completes a brief questionnaire and submits a photo. Carroll and Kenneth Shaw, a 27-year-old former Microsoft and One Kings Lane employee who built Elle‘s Facebook app, then call two Tawkify users and have them talk on the phone. Aside from scores, they consider age and interests.
Carroll and Shaw tested the Klout score element before Monday’s announcement.
The duo matched 60 people, who all didn’t know Klout scores had been factored into the matchmaking equation. Of the 30 over-the-phone pairings, 90% of them wanted to talk again, exchange numbers or meet.
“Amorous fireworks caused by throwing two people together with similar Klout scores can’t be predicted with perfect accuracy, of course,” Carroll writes. “A Klout score will never replace our match-making instincts.
“But we’ve found that Klout scores are an authentic measurement of sophistication, wit, cultural savvy and appeal — a much truer and more trustworthy measurement than the typical online dating site bull-hockey-factors of height, weight and income.”
Klout spokeswoman Lynn Fox says this is just one example of how Klout wants influence to help everyone.
Do you think you would hit it off better with someone who has similar Klout score? Let me know in the comments.
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