Yes, it was the first time I heave ever used Twitter in a conversation. And as much as I appreciated the new experience, I disliked the fact that it is so difficult to actually follow the course of discussion.

Unlike chat, unlike the discussion forum even, this most asynchronous of all means of communication (well, I’m exaggerating, perhapsJ) is difficult for a partaker not only because it is so stretched in time, but also because it is linear in the way that each new post appears after a previous one (so unlike in a discussion forum where related posts can be grouped together), because a substantial number of various threads/topics may appear all in one discussion, and finally because each and every entry is subject to a character limit, making utterances abbreviated or cut into parts.

Contrary to what I had thought, Twitter threads proved to be very personal (words often spoken directly to someone specific rather than the whole group) and what fascinated me even more was an article by Jutko et.al. where a number of additional advantages of using Twitter were revealed (including but not limited to: high students’ engagement in the study process, extending classroom conversations, expressing personal feelings, revealing one’s shortcomings, mentioning extra-curricular content to find common interest, etc.).

I admit that to fully engage in a 3-day long discussion, a regular check of a few times a day would be necessary, probably.

Yes, I do believe Twitter has its place in the e-education process and I wish to continue my exploration of it starting from reading the bibliography positions from the two Twitter-related articles.