Twitter Discussion

I had my first discussion on Twitter! I should say it is different from what I got used to. It was a little confusing at first to see who replied to what because it shows all the tweets in a list. In this sense, BB discussion board (BBDB) is better organized. It has topics and subtopics which makes it easier to use. I used BBDB in another class for a project and it was very helpful. There was a separate topic for that particular project where students could post their questions as new threads. You could look through the list of subtopics to find a similar question to yours and see all the replies and find the needed answer. I think it would have been much more difficult to do with Twitter.
Another thing, BBDB is available to only those students within a particular section. So there are no any outside users whereas Twitter is accessible to everyone.
Oh, most importantly, BBDB does not have such a strict character limitation as Twitter does. That is helpful especially when you try to explain someone complex things, like accounting details for certain transactions. You can not do that with 140 characters.
Of course, nothing can replace face-to-face discussion in class. It is most valuable but not quite efficient. I think this is why many prefer Twitter due to easy access any time and quick updates.