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Sweetter is an opensource Twitter-like service (or Twitter clone, might better describe the service). It’s microblogging combined with Pligg style voting. So you can write whatever you want—about that pie you ate, or about a new site you found—however, if the crowd doesn’t like your posts, you can lose karma points. Like Twitter, there is a 140 character limit. But beyond that, you’ve got points and a ToDo system. This means you can send a sweet (basically a tweet) giving someone a task to do. You gain points by having more followers and having your sweets voted for in a positive manner. The whole objective is to become juaker, meaning you’ve got 25 or more points. You don’t want to be a ‘looser’ which means your points run into the red. Sweetter has plug-ins for Twitter, Jaiku, and you can make your own.
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“Sweetter is a open source and fun microblogin service. Sweetter 2.0 are being developing by SUGUS (group of GNU users from the University of Seville).”
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Sweetter may be simpler than Twitter. It’s open source and it has added dimensions. Some may like the voting system; this may actually filter through the inane posts which many complain about on Twitter. It’s also more interactive than Twitter as you can send commands, and earn points.
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Will Twitterers convert? Will this become a refuge for those who aren’t satisfied with Twitter? So far, the audience is largely Spanish, as this is a creation from the University of Seville, will the English speaking world pick up on it?
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