Blog about Twitter

    Twitter is an microblogging and social networking service where users can post and interact with others.  The messages or short microblogs are known as "tweets" and users are limited to 280 characters in a tweet.

    Comparing Twitter to Blackboard discussion is like comparing a Ferrari to a Honda.  Honda is good but Ferrari is just better with its design and performance capabilities.  I think of the same while comparing Twitter discussion to Blackboard discussion.  Twitter has better design.  Its user focused design is miles ahead of Blackboard and the numerous features it has over Blackboard can be another blog post in itself.  I can see seamlessly and in blazing speed what my colleagues are talking about and see a specific topic discussion by using hashtag while in Blackboard I would have to go to a discussion, then click on one my friends post, then another, and then another which just takes a lot of time.

    But I still think an in-class discussion beats all other aspect of digital communication.  It's just our human nature and we can get more sense of the discussion if we are face to face.  A tweet cannot show the emotion one might be going through while they write it but in-class discussion we can get that feeling and it the discussion become even more engaging and persuasive.