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Comparing Twitter and Blackboard discussions? Which is more fruitful and more insightful?

On Blackboard, there is a certain feeling of obligation of having to comment on posts in order to receive full credit. Often times, these comments are incredibly superficial as the incentive to speak is "hey i just need to say SOMETHING to get me credit that still resembles some kind of work". And this isn't a secret to anyone either; professors know it, students know it, and I've even heard administrative people make jokes about it in passing at Baruch College. While occasionally, there will be a more serious comment with more lucrative information, more often than not they're just drabble that says "WOW I AGREE! IS THIS ENOUGH OF LENGTH OF A COMMENT TO GET ME FULL CREDIT?". Discussions on blackboard don't move more than 5 comments either, really ending the conversation short too.

Discussions on Twitter have a different feeling. Now it's 140 characters limiting you to really think about what you wanna say, distill it down to a digestible form, and then send it. Using cleaver hashtags to show humour, solidarity, or just reiterate your thoughts in a searchable form also adds some sort of life to the discussion. And tweeting is really easy too. It's meant to be informal and to say whatever you wanna say, allowing for much longer chain based discussion. Characterwise/content wise it'll have less, but with more people talking about whatever they wanna pitch towards the conversation, it definitely makes up for it and is much more lucrative in information gathering and sentiment analysis.

What do you all think between commenting on Blackboard and Twitter? Which do you prefer? Smash that like button, leave a comment, thumbs up whatever #youtube.

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