The first Tweeter Message from Space?
Mike Massimino, whose twitter can be followed here, is the first guy to send his twits direct from space.
The guy is an astronaut from NASA, who went on his mission and flew to space last Monday from Cape Canaveral. He then sent a tweeter message on his account and becomes the first man to do so.
Massimino, however, isn’t actually sending twits from space, according to this article from Orlando Sentinel:
“NASA explained to me last week that Massimino wouldn’t be posting the update directly to Twitter himself, I put quotes around the words "tweet from space," since some may not consider it to be an official update from space. The way it works is that Massimino composes a Twitter message offline and when there is a connection between the shuttle and the ground, the message is transmitted via e-mail to support personnel who post it to Massimino’s Twitter account from the ground.”
