Tweets in space – or not..

Posted on 22 May 2009 by


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Shuttle Astronaut Mike Massimino received a lot of press for being the first person to “Tweet from space”. Or did he? New reports are now arriving that perhaps what really happened is @astro_mike mailed his tweets home via email where they were posted by someone on the ground. You know, sort of how your grandma or grandpa may ask you to take a written note and convert it to an email? Next year maybe NASA can add the free Twitter service to their budget.

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