Twitter conversations can be quite engaging. The conversations can take place, privately and publicly and even through our cell phones. Twitter forces us to keep out discussions to 140 characters, which can easily remove unnecessary conversational clutter and make users get straight to the point. Having discussions in class does contain dialogue that is just not necessary and do not contribute strongly enough to the discussion. Another benefit to a twitter discussion is that you can refer back to the conversation at a later date in the event one would want to review the discussion. Twitter discussions do move at a substantially lower pace and are not in real time like in class discussions.
Blackboard discussions and twitter discussions are more similar. One could review previous posts on both platforms to review the discussion and do not happen in real time. The one major difference of blackboard is that one could have longer posts. One could argue though that all comments and discussion points can be reduced to one or two 140 character tweets. Lastly, a blackboard discussion can really only take place at a computer. Blackboard has not mastered its mobile app, therefore Twitter does hold the upper hand in convenience. A Blackboard discussion also is only available to those in class, meanwhile at least all of your followers, or in some cases anyone, can view your twitter discussions.
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