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Klout API monthly volume grew from 100M to over 10B in 2011

Joe Fernandez · "The Business of Data" Panel // October 2011 · Dec 5, 2013 · at 4:27

Joe Fernandez, co-founder and CEO of Klout, shares API volume growth figures during a 2011 panel discussion on the business of data.

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“In January, we were doing a hundred million transactions a month on our API from about a thousand partners. In, ah, September, we did over ten billion from 5000 partners.”

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The claim, plainly

In 2011, Klout grew its API volume from 100 million transactions per month from about 1,000 partners in January to over 10 billion transactions per month from 5,000 partners in September.

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Assessment

Contemporary 2011 and early 2012 reporting confirms Klout's rapid API expansion, including having over 1,000 API partners in early 2011 and reaching approximately 10 billion API transactions per month by late 2011. However, contemporary reporting in AllThingsD (January 3, 2012) featuring CEO Joe Fernandez clarifies that the 100 million monthly transactions baseline was actually from January 2010, representing a 20-month growth trajectory to 10 billion transactions rather than an 8-month timeline within 2011 alone. Because the partner numbers and peak transaction scale are largely corroborated but the baseline start year was misstated, the claim is evaluated as partially true.

Quora entries from January 2011 confirm Klout had over 1,000 API partners including Hootsuite and Seesmic in early 2011.
AllThingsD report on January 3, 2012 quotes CEO Joe Fernandez confirming Klout reached 10 billion API calls per month by late 2011.
The same January 2012 AllThingsD report clarifies that the 100 million monthly transactions baseline was recorded in January 2010, making it a 20-month growth window instead of starting in January 2011.

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[1] quora.com [2] arxiv.org [3] businessinsider.com [4] apievangelist.com [5] apievangelist.com [6] allthingsd.com [7] allthingsd.com

Klout API partners 100 million 10 billion "Klout" "1,000" "5,000" API Klout API volume 100 million 10 billion 2011 "10 billion" "100 million" Klout API Klout API transactions 2011 January September

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