Twitter: Discussion

       The big difference between a Twitter discussion and an in-class discussion is obviously the lack of face to face communication.  Also its different because instead of an instant reply in person, you would have to wait until someone signs onto their Twitter and responds.  Twitter responses can also be more thought out than in-class responses, where everything is said right on the spot without much time to think.  This is different in Twitter because you have all the time in the world to think up a response.  A downside to a Twitter post is the fact that you are limited to 140 characters at a time whereas in person you can talk for as long as you want.  A main difference between Twitter and Blackboard discussions is privacy.  A discussion on Blackboard is limited to people in a particular class.  On twitter, even if you put for example #3810NET1A before your tweet, it is still visible to the public.  A Blackboard discussion is also more like a forum than Twitter is.  For each discussion board, there's a title and all of the subsequent posts are listed under that discussion board.  This is different than Twitter because on Twitter everyone tweets from their own page, but on Blackboard everyone posts to the same place.