Regarding KL scores, in a nutshell: Most of the high KL score members who are or were very engaged in the KL brand have noticed a slow, steady decline in scores recently - for at least 6 months. Some of them have done little to try to address this while others have tried to change their engagement and content to try to stop the bleeding. Some of those who have tried harder are bleeding more slowly than those who haven't tried as hard, but are still bleeding. Sorry for the sanguine idiom. Some people are disappointed by this trend. The trend used to be the opposite. Even high-score members could expect to see slow, steady, increases in scores over days, weeks, months, and years. Both of these trends are observed facts. I trust that "nothing had changed in the algo" but the environment has changed enough so that some of the most engaged users are left wondering what hit them. Certainly many others have written off KL (long ago) because they felt it behaved arbitrarily. KL spent many tens of millions of dollars of Private Equity and Perks client money trying to get users / members to care about KL. It was a full-court press. This went on for a few years. Joe successfully built and sold the brand. It's not about getting members to care so much about it anymore. The mission has been accomplished. The one user element that remains is that, as far as I know, end users must attach their networks (other than TW) to their KL in order to allow Lithium to get a complete read on a member. The more info Lithium has, the better it can use that to crunch scores, Expert Topic scores and rankings, etc. to sell to its customers. So KL does need to retain some credibility and usefulness to members so that members maintain their KL accounts and keep their Networks attached and refreshed when needed. KL faces some risk as its credibility among the influential population wanes. Of course Lithium has the ability to see how many users remain engaged on KL and the extent to which the users are adding and maintaining their Network Connections. Those refreshed oauths are KL's lifeblood (oh, blood again?), unless KL finds that TW data is sufficient for its own needs. To my knowledge, all TWs can/have a KL score, whether user had ever "joined" KL or not, unless the user has specifically opted out. I'm trying for Spock here. This is what I've observed.
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