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	First tweet from space (twitter.com)
	21 points by kevinold 6241 days ago

3 comments

edawerd 6240 days ago

Good thing he's not using SMS to tweet. It would be more expensive!

http://www.physorg.com/news129793047.html

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jmonegro 6241 days ago

Words cannot describe how awesome this is. Twitter is (quite literally!) out of this planet!

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thamer 6241 days ago

This one is truly out of this planet, I suppose @MarsPhoenix didn't really count... http://twitter.com/MarsPhoenix/statuses/839088619

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swombat 6240 days ago

Why wouldn't it?

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catone 6240 days ago

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? ;)

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lucumo 6240 days ago

So how did he do it? Do they have an Internet connection up there?

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robin_reala 6240 days ago

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.

http://twitter.com/Astro_Mike/status/1676124868

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