Scratch on Social Media

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Social media is the social interaction among people in which they create, share or exchange information and ideas in virtual communities and networks. The Scratch Team has many accounts on social media to share updates and other messages related to Scratch.

X (formerly Twitter)

This article is about the social media platform. For other uses, see X (disambiguation).

A screenshot of the Scratch Team's X profile

The Scratch Team operates an account, @scratch,^[1] on X, formerly known as Twitter. The account is used for posting announcements, downtimes on the Scratch Website, reposting feedback, and answering questions by Scratchers. It has over 118,000 followers and has made over 1,500 posts. It self-describes as:

“	Official account of Scratch, the programming language & online community where young people create stories, games, & animations. Created by @llkgroup @medialab	”
– Scratch's account

History

The account's first post was made on July 22, 2008. It said, "Getting ready for the Scratch@MIT conference." The account has gradually become more popular, now having over 118 thousand followers and 800 posts. The Scratch Team follows nearly 1,000 other accounts, mostly professors and education-related individuals and organizations.^[2] The Scratch Team has always had have a background depicting the Scratch program, though only visible on the website and not the app. The account is still active, and they often re-post teachers who post about Scratch in the classroom or how Scratch has enlightened learning in schools.^{[citation needed]}

Scratch Wiki

The Scratch Wiki has an X account as well, @ScratchWiki,^[3] which is separate from the main @scratch account. It is run by the Wiki Administrator MakeTheBrainHappy on behalf of the Wiki administrators. The posts mainly feature article suggestions, helpful resources, and re-posts from those discussing either the main website or the Wiki. It has not posted any new content since November 2, 2021.^[4]

YouTube

The Scratch Team has an official YouTube channel where they share updates about Scratch, including Scratch Video Updates and short promotional videos about Scratch. The Scratch Team YouTube channel also often posts tutorials on how to make basic projects in Scratch. It currently has over 131,000 subscribers (as of April 21, 2022).^[5]

The Scratch Team has an alternate channel, called Scratch for Educators, that was created on May 2022^[6], which currently has 208 subscribers (as of May 21, 2022), which has only a Scratch 15th Anniversary Celebration video.^[7]

Facebook

A lot of Scratch Team members own their own individual Facebook pages, including Mitchel Resnick (mres).^[8] Adding on to that, Scratch has its own Facebook page, which mainly likes and reposts things about teachers using Scratch in their classroom. As of April 13, 2022, the account had 37,774 likes and 40,532 follows.^[9] The account self describes as:

“	Scratch is a programming environment and online community where kids create, share and remix animations, stories, interactive art and video games. Created by the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab.	”
– Scratch Team Facebook Account ^[10]

Reddit

Like many other subjects on Reddit, there are multiple subreddits about Scratch, the most popular of which is /r/scratch. It was created in 2010 by /u/andresmh, who was a Scratch Team member at the time and who still moderates the subreddit, but it is not currently owned or moderated by any other members of the Scratch Team.^[11] Despite being the largest Scratch-related subreddit, it is still fairly small in comparison to other non-Scratch-related subreddits, with about 20,000 subscribers (as of November 18, 2024). On /r/scratch, submissions are mostly composed of project links, questions, requests for feedback, and tutorials.

Other Scratch-related subreddits, such as /r/scratchmemes, are not owned or moderated by the Scratch Team, but by fellow redditors who are usually Scratchers themselves.^{[citation needed]}

On Reddit, submissions can be upvoted or downvoted by users, making popular submissions rise to the top and unpopular submissions (or submissions that are unrelated to the subreddit) descend. Each subreddit has its own unique rules that redditors are required to follow, which are determined by the subreddit's moderators. /r/scratch, for example, requires redditors to follow the main site's Community Guidelines, but it also includes its own unique rules (such as disallowing meme submissions, which are to be submitted to /r/scratchmemes instead.)^[12]

Tumblr

A screenshot of the Scratch Team's Tumblr blog

The Scratch Team's official Tumblr blog contains posts about Wiki Wednesday forum posts, new Scratch Design Studios, and other special announcements. Three of the blog's most recent posts will appear on Scratch's front page, under the Scratch News section.

Medium

A screenshot of the Scratch Team's Medium blog

Alongside Tumblr, the Scratch Team also has a blog on Medium. Content includes announcements about new features, interviews, guides for parents and educators, and more. Posts from the Medium blog also appear on Scratch.org.

Instagram

The Scratch Team operates an Instagram account, @scratchteam, where they share posts and reels about Scratch, including posts about new features, events, and information for educators. As of December 2024, their account has 18.1k followers.

Threads

Alongside Instagram, the Scratch Team also operates an account on Threads, a social media platform which requires an Instagram account to use and features integration between the two platforms. As of December 2024, their account has around 3,000 followers.

Former Accounts

This article or section documents something not included in the current version of Scratch (3.0). It is only useful from a historical perspective.

Google+

A screenshot of the MIT Media Lab's former Google+ page, taken in 2014. Notice that the background of the Media Lab's page is the Media Lab itself at night.

Scratch had a presence on Google+ until its shutdown in 2019. While the Scratch Team themselves did not have an official account, the MIT Media Lab did, and many then-Scratch Team members operated their own Google+ profiles, including Lightnin, grokblah, Scmb1, Speakvisually, ceebee, Paddle2See and many more. Google+ allowed users to share images, links, YouTube videos, and plain text posts. The MIT Media Lab page had over 274,000 followers and 1,919,000 views.

External Links

References

[1] ttps://x.com/Scratch

[2] ttps://x.com/scratch/following

[3] ttps://x.com/ScratchWiki

[4] ttps://x.com/ScratchWiki/status/1455739234514608134

[5] ttps://youtube.com/channel/UCjcQmKeifVUUH5s4E4OrMhg

[6] ttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDsmj_8qyQHoGgfpK-3IfLw/about

[7] ttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDsmj_8qyQHoGgfpK-3IfLw

[8] ttps://www.facebook.com/pages/Mitchel-Resnick/111985135485089

[9] ttps://www.facebook.com/scratchteam

[10] ttps://www.facebook.com/scratchteam/info

[11] ttps://old.reddit.com/r/scratch/about/moderators

[12] ttps://old.reddit.com/r/scratch/about/rules/

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