Comments on: 25 Things You Must Know About How NASA Uses Twitter

By: moxhood

moxhood — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 08:36:48 +0000

I want to work for @NASA TWEETTEAM……PLEASE READ OVER my TWEETS. I would love to start this job @ the first of the NEW YEAR…..because I AM TOO BUSY RIGHT NOW………Let my Tweets and my behavior over the next several months……be a tool ur welcomed to utilze to VETT me……THANKS

MOX HOOD

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AMAZING INFO AND ARTICLE THIS WOULD BE MY DREAM JOB!!!!!!!!

By: Ron Reisman

Ron Reisman — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 03:23:30 +0000

Seems like Twitter is going to be the biggest thing around very soon – not too many organizations out there that DONT use there service.

By: Shannon Moore

Shannon Moore — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:47:35 +0000

Neal, it was a pleasure meeting you and all the other space fans and space advocates at the STS-129 NASA Tweetup. Thank YOU for all YOU do to promote our space program, science education and collaboration & connection thru Twitter and other tools. And I think if memory serves you were the one that made sure we gave due thanks to NASA folks who made the tweetup possible. For that, alone, you earn my mega kudos. Thanks again!

By: Glenn Houtary

Glenn Houtary — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 13:51:36 +0000

thanks for
the open, honest and informative overview of twitter and NASA, I am always curious to know what is going on at NASA, i have held curiosity since as a
grade schooler… long ago; NASA captured my imagination with an astronaut school visit explaining the new space shuttle. Keep it up! I’ll be following the progress

By: Neal Wiser

Neal Wiser — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 01:41:31 +0000

True, the tweet wasn’t actually transmitted to Twitter directly from space. I asked about that and the reality is that there is no actual connection between ISS and the internet. All available bandwidth is committed to monitoring the ISS’s systems and experiments. So, the Tweet’s message was sent to mission control, then posted on Twitter. This fact does not change the spirit of the event.

By: Red Eyes

Red Eyes — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 17:12:27 +0000

The first “tweet from space” wasn’t from space. This is not another conspirasy theory! The article itself (above) says so. The data was transmitted to Earth by e-mail and then tweeted by Mission Control. Let’s see a real Tweet which says “from space” at the bottom. Surely the guys at NASA could make that happen. It isn’t rocket science.

By: Neal Wiser

Neal Wiser — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 13:54:39 +0000

Ollopa, Although I was writing about human spaceflight, I believe you are correct that @MarsPhoenix (via Veronica McGregor) was the first at NASA to tweet. Thanks for the clarification and thoughtful comment.

By: Miriam

Miriam — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 04:20:27 +0000

Like Joi, above, I was passionate about space travel as a kid. As I got older, I lost track of all the launches and other interests took over. It was a pleasant surprise then, to find that NASA and some of the astronauts were on twitter. Deciding to follow was spontaneous and the tweets, pictures from space and the live launches quickly enticed me back into feeling the excitement and interest I thought I had lost. The incredible moment came when the STS-127 Tweetup was announced. I registered and made the trip to DC to meet the courageous and fascinating men and women who are our astronauts.

I think NASA has made a brilliant move in joining Twitter and allowing the public such seemingly direct access to it’s programs. I thank you for helping to reignite my passion for space travel and for making it possible for me to meet in person the real life heroes of today and the future.

By: Paul Blaauw

Paul Blaauw — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 22:21:19 +0000

#26 Who tweets on behalf of NASA’s projects? LCROSS for example tweets in first-person, but of course, a machine can’t actually ‘tweet’. Who’s really tweeting?

By: Ollopa

Ollopa — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:40:18 +0000

Hi Neal, I have just one issue with your blog, which is now RT by @NASA: It does not give credit to @MarsPhoenix and the robot’s human cypher, Veronica McGregor at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. @MarsPhoenix was way ahead of the rest of NASA, tweeting from the surface of Mars before most people at HQ had even heard of Twitter! @MarsPhoenix has been covered in eight feet of carbon-dioxide snow, but they will try to make contact again with the Spring thaw (maybe this month). It’s a long shot, but it would be great to hear one last tweet from a Twitter pioneer. BTW, my favourite astro-tweeter isn’t a NASA astronaut, it’s @CFuglesang of the European Space Agency.