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#1 2010-06-10 18:25:42
Meower -Twitter, only better!
I was thinking about people, blogs, and the releasing of new projects onto the Scratch website. I was thinking that an integration or a version of Twitter in Scratch 2.0 would be awesome for several reasons:
1. Announcing new games would be easy.
2. People could personally reply to others in a transparent environment. (like Twitter!)
3. You could write notes, post links, and advertise to your followers
4. Meh. 
On your page, there could be a section for your Meower, your newest project, your favorite project, and other categories. Sort-of-like FaceBook!
It would be pretty awesome!
You may say that the forums already do all of this, but you have to stay on topic. So on your Meower, you could talk with your collab group, announce that you're moving to Texas and get replies, and have, basically, your own forum category.
Comments?
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#2 2010-06-10 18:36:04
- ScratchReallyROCKS
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Re: Meower -Twitter, only better!
Well, then Scratch would turn into more of a social site rather than a sharing site.
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#3 2010-06-10 19:11:45
Re: Meower -Twitter, only better!
ScratchReallyROCKS wrote:
Well, then Scratch would turn into more of a social site rather than a sharing site.
You're right... But still!
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#4 2010-06-10 20:08:32
- ScratchReallyROCKS
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Re: Meower -Twitter, only better!
iCode-747 wrote:
ScratchReallyROCKS wrote:
Well, then Scratch would turn into more of a social site rather than a sharing site.
You're right... But still!
yeah you're right, it is a pretty cool Idea...
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#5 2010-06-10 20:18:57
Re: Meower -Twitter, only better!
ScratchReallyROCKS wrote:
iCode-747 wrote:
ScratchReallyROCKS wrote:
Well, then Scratch would turn into more of a social site rather than a sharing site.
You're right... But still!
yeah you're right, it is a pretty cool Idea...
Thanks! 
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#7 2010-06-11 01:50:22
- Jonathanpb
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Re: Meower -Twitter, only better!
People are already forgetting about the Scratch program and only using the Scratch website to chat ( 
)... adding these social networking features would just make Scratch a real social networking site (that has some mild programming aspects). 
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#8 2010-06-11 02:00:08
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All this would encourage more chatting... it would be bad outside the forums as well.
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#9 2010-06-11 08:38:39
Re: Meower -Twitter, only better!
Jonathanpb wrote:
People are already forgetting about the Scratch program and only using the Scratch website to chat (
I agree with Jonathan because with all the spam and other forum problems, the froums are hard engough to keep up, so if we have something even more social, people will come here to chat and spam. We all came to Scratch for the programming, so remember, Scratch is not, and will never be a social networking site like twittwer, or facebook. I like the way you are thinking because we need a safe way to collaborate with others, but this idea could turn into trouble later.
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#10 2010-06-11 10:17:09
Re: Meower -Twitter, only better!
I see both sides. I'm for and against it!
If the plan is for more integration with facebook and other social sites... this will not be needed.
I think I would rather see our comment system made more powerful:
More than 500 characters. Perhaps bold, italic, color, and signatures to projects that you want to promote, get answers to questions for. more than 3 levels of threads, perhaps. (at least not the 3rd level hidden by default.)
Subscribe and/or better notification of unread comments, somehow.
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#11 2010-06-11 13:01:29
- Wolfie1996
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Re: Meower -Twitter, only better!
All social networking sites are blocked by parental controls on my computer - I don't really mind, because I don't like them much anyway. This is why I'm a bit mleh-ish about 2.0 getting intergrated with Facebook and Twitter... I wouldn't be able to view projects that used the new functions 
And as the others have said, it could encourage chatting...
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#13 2010-06-11 17:16:18
- ScratchReallyROCKS
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Re: Meower -Twitter, only better!
coolstuff wrote:
Great idea, but I'm afraid it might turn this site into some sort of social networking site just like Twitter. And it's another thing the Team would need to moderate
That's what I was thinking
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#14 2010-06-11 17:51:54
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coolstuff wrote:
Great idea, but I'm afraid it might turn this site into some sort of social networking site just like Twitter. And it's another thing the Team would need to moderate
You all have points.
You can close this.
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#15 2010-06-12 01:11:14
- MyRedNeptune
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Re: Meower -Twitter, only better!
iCode-747 wrote:
coolstuff wrote:
Great idea, but I'm afraid it might turn this site into some sort of social networking site just like Twitter. And it's another thing the Team would need to moderate
You all have points.
You can close this.
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