Blog about Twitter

Twitter is a social networking site that allows user to post short updates under 140 characters through its website or through our mobile phones. These updates are short and personal and resembles a blog. Users can follow people that they know and get updates from them. They can also reply to one another or retweet something that someone said.

A Twitter discussion is just like a blackboard discussion because blackboard discussions involve us providing brief feedback and replies to a post by another student. Twitter responses are shorter but it is basically a shortened version of blackboard discussion responses. Also, both types of discussions involve a user sharing information with multiple or many users with a single post. Everyone can reply and comment to that one post.

Not only are twitter discussions similar to blackboard discussions, they are also similar to in class discussions. For class discussions, students would raise their hands and participate. They would usually make a comment and the next student can either agree or disagree or raise questions. This is equivalent to replying to a tweet on twitter. Responses in class may be more in depth and will be longer, while twitter replies are always limited to 140 characters. Basically comments and feedback are circulating through twitter or the classroom. In addition, the hashtag option on twitter allows for tweets under the same "topic" to be viewed at once. This is just like a class discussion. We hear all the comments which is the same as reading all the tweets under that "topic".  A small difference between the two would be the audience size. Tweets reach a larger group of audience and almost anyone can reply to a tweet. However, in a class discussion, it is restricted to the amount of people in the class.

The biggest difference between Twitter discussions and blackboard and class discussions is that Twitter can be accessible anywhere and anytime, which allows for more freedom in one's responses.