Blog about Twitter

Twitter is an online social networking site where users post and interact with messages and tweets. Twitter allows your to follow friends and other people around the world. Twitter allows you to interact with other by posting tweets on your page and also retweeting or replying to other tweets on other people's profiles. There are two big differences between BlackBoard Discussions and Twitter. The first difference is that Twitter use to only allow 140 characters when writing a tweet which limited many people's ability to write long tweets. But recently, Twitter has increased the character limit to 280. While BlackBoard Discussions don't have character limits so people are allowed to write as much as they want. The second difference between Twitter and BlackBoard Discussions are the amount of people you are allowed to interact with. Twitter allows you to interact with as many people or profiles as you wish. You are allowed to follow and reply/ retweet other people's tweets whenever you want. But for BlackBoard Discussions, you are only allowed to reply or post in classes that are using BlackBoard Discussions. Other than that, there's not much interactions you can have on BlackBoard. 
In class discussions are different between Blackboard Discussions and Twitter because of the face-to-face aspect. In class discussions are more personal because you have to talk to people and actually look at them to be able to talk to them. 

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