Twitter is an amazing platform for users to interact, repost things they may enjoy, and receive updates on the latest news that is happening globally. It is very unique in terms of the content it provides, and the user experience it offers. When comparing it against something like a Blackboard discussion, they share a few differences. A blackboard discussion would allow for multiple individuals to interact without having any limitations on the number of characters they would be able to use. For Twitter, users are only provided 280 characters per tweet. This would mean if someone wanted to fully engage in a conversation, it would have to be through multiple tweets instead of one. Both platforms do allow users to interact with each other through the use of replies, which helps keep user engagement in conversations.
When looking at both Twitter and in-class discussions, they can both be seen as similar in a way also. In-class discussions are usually initiated with a person saying something, or students responding to a question posed by the professor. Twitter does this in a similar manner where people would respond to one tweet which would start the beginning of the discussion. People are then able to interact under that discussion similarly as they would in an in-class discussion. Again, the only limitation of Twitter is the restriction on how much someone can post in a single tweet, but this can be solved by individuals replying multiple times to the same post.
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