Use Your Klout Social Media Score to Get into San Francisco’s Cathay Pacific Lounge (Assuming You Don’t Suck)

There are several online services devoted to telling you how more sway you have in the social media world. There’s Klout, which uses some magic formula, and there’s Kred, which looks at the number of mentions you give or retweets you get. Now, because this article is about Klout, I have an excellent opportunity to use a pun that the company set themselves up for. However, I won’t because I don’t want to lose any “kred” (yup, lost it). Anyway, social media measuring site, Klout, wants you to download their iPhone app. Once you have it, and once you have a Klout score of 40 or above, you can waltz right into the Cathay Pacific Lounge – for free – at the San Francisco airport. This is normally for first class or business customers, but Cathay have teamed with Klout for this promotion (via Tech Crunch).

And as of this week, PeteHatesMusic has a Klout score of 40 – suck on that! So all we need to do is smuggle ourselves into San Francisco, and we can live in the Cathay lounge, like Tom Hanks did in that movie Big The Terminal. The lounge has seven workstations, three showers, and a noodle bar, and I love me some noodles. The promotion starts today and ends in July, and is one of the weirder ones I’ve heard in awhile. Oh well, time to mooch!