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Blackboard discussions and Twitter discussions differ in a plethora of ways. A Blackboard discussion is less "fluid" than a Twitter discussion. For example, on a Blackboard discussion post, one user posts an initial post and if someone wishes to see it or comment on it, he or she would have to go down a list of all the posts and look for the title or author that interests them.
A Twitter discussion is more fluid in the sense that the homepage feed shows all the status updates that are going on. If one wishes to comment, he or she can directly click on the comment box, direct their comment at a user by using "@" and that function will notify the other user that they have been @-ed. I feel that a Blackboard discussion is least like an in-class discussion and a Twitter discussion is more like the real thing.
An in-class discussion is the best because there is something about face-to-face interactions that social networking sites cannot replicate. In-class discussions are much more effective because there is less room for miscommunication. Reading status updates and discussion posts through a computer screen leaves a lot of room for misinterpretation where the reader could take something in a way that the writer did not intend. In-class discussions also allow people to read facial expressions and experience emotions that computer screen (i.e. Blackboard, Twitter, etc.) cannot replicate.