First Live Tweet from Outer Space—For Real This Time

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Sunday, January 24, 2010

First Live Tweet from Outer Space—For Real This Time

TJ Creamer, outer space tweeter

An American astronaut orbiting high above the earth has posted the first ever message to Twitter—for real, this time. Thanks to the installation of new software aboard the International Space Station, astronaut T.J. Creamer managed to post a message to his Twitter account (@Astro_TJ) that read: “Hello Twitterverse! We r now LIVE tweeting from the International Space Station — the 1st live tweet from Space! :) More soon, send your ?s”

Creamer’s feat followed the revelation last spring that astronaut Mike Massimino, who claimed to be posting messages to Twitter from the space shuttle Atlantis, had actually been sending messages to the Kennedy Space Center which in turn was tweeting for him.

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