First tweet from space
twitter.comGood thing he's not using SMS to tweet. It would be more expensive!
Words cannot describe how awesome this is. Twitter is (quite literally!) out of this planet!
This one is truly out of this planet, I suppose @MarsPhoenix didn't really count... http://twitter.com/MarsPhoenix/statuses/839088619
Why wouldn't it?
Because I think it was a human on Earth interpreting data from a machine in space, rather than a human tweeting directly from orbit.
Though I guess these tweets are emailed from a human in space and then interpreted/posted by humans on earth -- so I dunno: do these really count, either? ;)
So how did he do it? Do they have an Internet connection up there?
I believe there’s an IP connection to the ISS, Shuttle I’m not sure about. For this particular tweet though email came to the rescue:
I will be able to twitter from space if I have time. I will email tweets to NASA who'll fwd them. No promises but I will try my best.