how many of you knew this? that he was emailing and someone else was manually posting? - Zee.

say wha? i just followed him because i thought it was true - Alfredo

was gonna say - his roaming charges must be out of this world! #cornyfridays - Cee Bee

I had no idea. - Michelle Martinez

LOL - "out of this world" makes it. :) - Zee.

This isn't shocking at all, really. Last I knew there was no internet access on the ISS, only local access to data relayed to/from the ground. - matthew john ernisse

At 360000 km/h emailing is okay with me. I have seen the gloves these dudes wear. - Ruud van Wijngaarden

I had no idea there was no access to internet from the ISS Matthew. I don't see how were should be expected to know that...and for NASA and others to go out of their way to state that he's tweeting from outerspace when he isn't...is a bit of a let down - Zee.

are people really getting bent out of shape over this? good grief. they're still messages from him while he's in orbit. why does it matter that they were proxied from email into twitter? - Imabug

I'm w/ the bug, just because it had to be emailed first doesn't make it any less authentic of a tweet. At least it was really his words instead of being ghost written by NASA - Davis Freeberg

I can't help but disagree. He is emailing from outerspace. He is not tweeting from outerspace... - Zee.

I never saw any tweets from him pass by my screen after I followed. So yes- I feel let down but I didn't waste any time keeping up with @Astro_Mike. - Jeff Stannard

Now if he was using FF to post via email via FF to twitter, y'all would be happy :) - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick

"I will be able to twitter from space if I have time. I will email tweets to NASA who'll fwd them. No promises but I will try my best." -- 9:09 PM May 1st, http://twitter.com/Astro_M... - Ken Sheppardson