One of the major differences with Twitter discussions and that of Blackboard, is the amount of words you can use to express your idea. Each tweet allows a maximim amount of 160 characters, whereas on Blackboard you are not limited.
With Twitter, responding to someone's tweet is time sensitive, because withouth a retweet it is hard to follow a discussion. However, on Blackboard, your response is easy to follow, because it creates a thread under the original post.
Twitter significantly differs from an in-class discussion, because it is much easier to express thoughts in person rather than through text. Also, just like Blackboard, with an in class discussion, you need not express your thoughts in such a concise manner as twitter requires.
I agree with with you especially about the part where it's easier to express yourself in person. When a person talks or expresses themselves there is more than just the words coming out, body language and tone also plays a big role in how something in interpreted.
ReplyDeleteOne last thing I think the maximum amount of characters in a tweet is 140 rather than 160.