First Tweet From Space: 'Hello Twitterverse!'
By Paul McDougall
InformationWeek
January 22, 2010 01:45 PM

Astronaut aboard ISS is first to post an extraterrestrial message directly to the micro-blogging service.

First it was Bill Gates, now astronauts are the latest high-achievers to discover the power of Twitter this week.

Flight engineer T.J. Creamer, of NASA Expedition 22 aboard the International Space Station, posted a tweet at approximately 3:38 a.m. EST Friday. It was the first ever to be posted directly to Twitter from somewhere other than planet Earth....more