Blog About Twitter

Blog About Twitter

There are several differences and similarities that can be drawn from comparing twitter with class discussion board. Firstly, while in twitter, we tweet our opinion and just about anything in our minds. In the class Board we do posts that are focused on the weekly discussions that are centered on the course work. Secondly, twitter needs one to have a twitter handle, which must start with an ‘@’. However with the class discussion board our names usually appear on top of every discussion, as such we do not need handles as those ones used on twitter. Thirdly, our class discussion board are not limited to the length of a post that one can actually post. As a matter of fact the class discussion board allows for attachment of documents that may be upto a certain number of MBs. With twitter, tweets are limited to 280 characters. In my view this may at time hamper the message that one may want to convey. Twitter is not for the ‘too wordy’ people.

Forth, in our class discussion board we rarely use hashtags to identify trending discussions. However, on twitter, not using Hashtags can makes tracking discussions and trending topics really difficult. In addition, discussion threads that are advanced in the school discussion board are only meant and can be seen by those students who have subscribed to the chat and post on the Discussion Board. For instance, this post will be seen by all of you in this class and not other students out of this class. However, on twitter, followership is pertinent to viewing the post of other individuals. Albeit, tweets are viewable to a wider range audience compared to class discussion Board. Lastly, in twitter not replying to tweets immidietly can make things messy and untraceable, as such a tweep intending to reply to tweet after some has got to use RT retweet and include some words of the original tweet. This is not the case with class discussion board., as one can reply to a discussion thread whatever time as long as the discussion board is not closed.