Blog about Twitter

Twitter discussions are very different from Blackboard discussions or in-class discussions. Both Twitter and Blackboard discussions are done via the internet and in class discussions are done in person. In an in-class discussion, you are physically interacting with others and hearing their voice, which is the most ideal form of communication. In a Blackboard discussion, discussion is made from a single post. Someone starts a post and the comments under it will become the discussion. This creates a thread such that someone can make a comment under the original post or under another comment. On the other hand, Twitter discussion is made by re-tweeting, tagging another person, or using a hash-tag under a certain topic. Twitter is more complicated form of discussion compare to the other two because you cannot directly comment under a post. In a Twitter discussion, you can follow a hash-tag by clicking on it to see discussions by other users. Also, you can re-tweet a post and add a comment for it. Tagging another person to respond to a post of theirs makes a smaller discussion mainly between you and that other person. Therefore, Twitter, Blackboard, and in-class discussion very different from each other.