Mike Massimino, an traveler on expanse shuttle Atlantis, is feat to hit to do whatever explaining to the Twitter accord when he lands today at President Space Center. Turns discover Massimino wasn’t rattling tweeting from expanse on the @Astro_Mike account.

It was actually a NASA employee doing the micro-updating for him, and not modify in real-time: Massimino writes his updates in expanse and then e-mails them to Houston. That effectuation it ofttimes takes hours for updates to materialize on the Twitter account, since e-mails are transmitted from the shuttle exclusive a whatever nowadays a day.

Not to expiration my possess alarm here, but I figured everyone kinda knew it wasn’t actually Massimino tweeting from space. Isn’t it manifest that astronauts belike hit meliorate things to do than feeding the Twitter website every so ofttimes to modify in fans on what they’re doing? Granted, you could debate the aforementioned most everyone added on Twitter, but it’s ease kinda of credulous to conceive that astronauts hit always-on cyberspace connectivity in orbit.

Either way, Etan pianist from the metropolis Sentinel burst at small 340K people’s bubbles today.

Update: Massimino actually revealed this himself whatever instance ago. Guess that portion micro-message got forfeited in the real-time course somewhere.

(Via The Next Web)

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