Blog about Twitter

A Twitter discussions for forums such as a classroom when compared to an in class Blackboard Discussion page or even a blog discussion, seems to be a better fit for arenas of technical collaboration. In regards to the size of a classroom it could be of great benefit when you are dealing with a large number of students or participants of a twitter discussion. The best part is the fact that the responses are real time and can be seen immediately if necessary. Getting status updates on messages you have sent in the form of a "retweet" can clarify just exactly who is sending you a response to one of your status updates. 

With Blackboard we see that the responses are easy to understand but you don't know right away if someone has responded. You need to check to see if somene did in fact respond. The look of the page is very bland and sort of boring when dealing with a forum for discussion. A Blog works well for me in my opinion but it has its drawbacks in that as the owner of the blog you need to make your page readable to all people and not just some verified users of the blog world.  

If I had to use anyone of these discussion forums I would use Twitter because it would serve of the best form of marketing for my business in the long run which allows you to reach many at no real cost.