Blog About Twitter

Twitter is different compared to other forms of social networks and new media because it limits the amount of information able to be put out. This can keep discussions short and straight to the point. It differs however from a blackboard discussion because in Blackboard there is not such a strict character limit. The same goes for a class discussion. It is much more different from a class discussion because in a class it is verbal and people can elaborate as much as they want. People in a classroom setting may also interrupt each other without having to wait for a time window, since they are able to both listen and speak to each other simultaneously whereas on Twitter, you follow a person, you keep up with what they post, you reply to it and then it goes back and forth until the end of the discussion.