Twitter: Discussion

Being a new user to Twitter, my experience of having a twitter discussion was interesting.

Compared to an Blackboard discussion board conversation its almost similar. In Blackboard discussion board, you post threads and people will rely to it. In Twitter, people update their status and people may also reply to it. Although in discussion board, you're not limited to the amount of characters you can use where as in Twitter you're limited to 140 characters so tweets must be straight to the point. In Twitter you have Twitter hashtags which make it easier to find information through a simple search as compared to discussion board where you'd have to look for your topic or information by looking through all the threads.

A Twitter discussion compared to an in-class discussion is much different. An in-class discussion may carry on more quicker and smoothly. But with a Twitter discussion you're able to have more people discuss there thoughts because not everyone in the discussion has to be confined into one classroom.