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Re:First tweet from space by edawerd on Tuesday May 12, 2009 @08:40PM (#606324)
Good thing he's not using SMS to tweet. It would be more expensive!

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

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Re:First tweet from space by jmonegro on Tuesday May 12, 2009 @04:58PM (#606153)
Words cannot describe how awesome this is. Twitter is (quite literally!) out of this planet!
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Re:First tweet from space by thamer on Tuesday May 12, 2009 @05:16PM (#606168)
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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Re:First tweet from space by swombat on Tuesday May 12, 2009 @06:33PM (#606216)
Why wouldn't it?
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Re:First tweet from space by catone on Tuesday May 12, 2009 @08:24PM (#606313)
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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Re:First tweet from space by lucumo on Tuesday May 12, 2009 @06:30PM (#606211)
So how did he do it? Do they have an Internet connection up there?
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Re:First tweet from space by robin_reala on Tuesday May 12, 2009 @06:43PM (#606227)
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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