Expedition 22 Flight Engineer T.J. Creamer has sent the first live Tweet from space today, via Crew Support LAN on the International Space Station.
Said Creamer: "Hello Twitterverse! We r now LIVE tweeting from the International Space Station -- the 1st live tweet from Space! :) More soon, send your ?s"
Creamer and other astronauts at the Space Station had sent Tweets before, but they ... [ read the full article ]
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Originally posted by Morreale: Very cool, but Twitter is still lame regardless. I don't care about the fast food you just inhaled, why are you telling me this?
I don't much care about most tweets...but when they are coming from someone in outer space, it is a bit different.
Seems odd that they don't have internet dirrectly; satelite-based internet is not commonplace, but it has been around for a while.
I'd be more interested in the deal that twitter cut to get them to do that. Is it a per flight deal, a per tweet deal, or a multi-year sponsorship of the space station?
Look for a shuttle plastered with corporate logos in the near future. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
