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I am hear today to compare the way we discuss on Twitter, Blackboard, and in-class. Let's stat with Twitter, by saying it is a clean platform, fairly easy to navigate new content, and having an informative newsfeed that relies on AI, but you can only use 280 characters. Now blackboard, you can discuss with others, and see post in a chronological order. Blackboard is more the old fashioned HTML forum oppose to the new mobile and web apps that make communicating seamless. 


Twitter you can engage with others with @ and hashtags. Where as blackboard requires you to make a discussion in one place and you can't direct them towards people. To contact someone you need to send them a private message. Blackboard is like this blog I am writing on, where I can make a post and you can engage thereafter. But twitter allows you to direct the people you want to engage with, then engage with the people that engaged with you, then engage with the people who engaged with the people who engaged with you. I think I used the rule engage a lot just now and that's the key...engagement. With twitter it is all about sparking an engagement and it all makes sense why they have character restrictions, who has time to engage with someones 40 page thesis?



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