Blog about Twitter

Because Twitter is basically public and open to the world, almost anyone can like, retweet, and interact with any tweet that has been published on the platform. Twitter's platform is essentially targeted towards a more omnipresent and ubiquitous group of users because of the amount of users and activity that's happening on the platform. People from all over the world are talking about various topics all day long so it's certainly possible that when someone, say a student in a classroom publishes a tweet, another person from anywhere in the world has the opportunity to interact with that tweet and can stir an interesting conversation. 

Conversely, Blackboard is a private network that's only connected to students within a specific class at a specific university so the amount of interactivity and communication is limited to a small subset. For example, the amount of users in a classroom is probably around 50 and out of those 50, not everyone will be active at the same time thus the activity level will certainly be lower then posting on Twitter where millions are using the platform at the same time. I think that the dependency per platform is contingent upon use case. For example, if a professor only wants to hear from the students of the class and wants to hear there viewpoint only, then it might be in that professors favor to have the dialect on Blackboard as opposed to Twitter. On the flip side if the professor want's a more global interaction and wants information to be present and accessible to anyone then it might make sense to have the discussion on Twitter. 

So again, if the use case is more pervasive then Twitter would make more sense as a platform to use, however if the use case is more explicit then Blackboard would make more sense.