Blog about Twitter

Blackboard Learn, is a virtual learning environment and course management system developed by Blackboard Inc. It is Web-based server software which features course management, customizable open architecture, and scalable design that allows integration with student information systems and authentication protocols.  While Twitter is an online news and social networking service where users post and interact with messages, known as "tweets." These messages were originally restricted to 140 characters, but on November 7, 2017, the limit was doubled to 280 characters for all languages except Japanese, Korean, and Chinese. Besides the message character restraints blackboard discussion and twitter discussion are similar in many ways. Both platforms allow their users to post about various topics in a forum with friends and likeminded piers. Twitter promotes interaction and discussion with their tagging and reposting feature. This grants users to comment or follow up on what someone else has tweeted to keep the conversation going. Blackboard uses similar methods as the software contains the ability to comment on what others have posted and these comments are able to be viewed by everyone on the thread. Futhermore, each thread on Blackboard discussions is like a hashtag, a hashtag is a keyword, or a phrase used to describe a topic or a theme. Twitter users put hashtags in their tweets to categorize them in a way that makes it easy for other users to find and follow tweets about a specific topic or theme.