Who made @Klout the arbiter of online influence?

Who made @Klout the arbiter of online influence, aside from Klout itself?

I could rank your influence online. If you like: I’ll add your number of Twitter followers to your number of Facebook friends, subtract the number of MySpace friends, laugh and point if you’re still on Friendster, take the square root, round up to the nearest integer and add six. That’s your Vicious Number (mine is 195). You’re welcome. 

One simple fact is you and I have no idea how Klout is doing this As far as any of us know, your @Klout score is determined by college interns, reliving there days of playing Dungeon and dragons each feverishly rolling a pair of ten-sided dice, and then that number is allowed to oscillate within a random but bounded range every day to give the appearance that something’s going on.

it seems that what Klout exists to do is create status anxiety – to saddle you with a popularity ranking, and then make you feel insecure about it (this is why right from the start I used to tell @klout I hated that Invite that used to read ( your Klout Score is 37 (I’m a 64). Check out your Join Klout and see how we compare. any time i would invite anyone i would cut that(see how we compare. (part out.I guess Klout got smart and changed that (so thats a good thing) 

 it seems Klout exists to turn the entire Internet into a high school cafeteria, in which everyone is defined by the table they sit at.

so now your standing in the middle of the room with your lunch tray, looking for a seat, hoping to ingratiate yourself with the cool kids, trying desperately not to get funneled to the table in the corner where the kids with scoliosis braces and D&D manuals sit.
Enjoy your day @Klout I am going out to eat and I do not care who you think is cool I can decide that for myself. 

                    I Love you all no matter what @klout thinks of you!