Blog about Twitter

Twitter and Blackboard are two different platforms where students can have a discussion. However,  in terms of usage and design, these two mediums have distinctive differences. Blackboard offers features such as discussions, wiki, and message functions between peers. The look is rather dull, with texts all cluttered together to the left in their navigation pane. To see the discussion board, you need to navigate through different clicks to get to the forums which I find is a flaw as this can be troublesome. At the discussion forums, there is a stream of threads, where you click into in order to read and comment on your classmates’ posting. Compared to Blackboard, Twitter offers a more pleasing look with vibrant colors, and a newsfeed where you can see your friend’s posting. Besides the comment function in the discussion, Twitter offers more function such as retweet, reply, or direct message which all serve different purposes depending on how one choose to react to the posting. A unique feature that Twitter offers are hashtags, where users can use specific keywords followed by a hash mark where users can search to find the tweet as long as it pertains to that hashtag. This function allows more Twitter users to comment on it and in Blackboard, only people in the class can post on the discussion. Despite the similarities between these two platforms, they both serve different purposes and utilized differently.