p2pnet news | P2P:- Speaking of extra-terrestrial events, “Hey there! MarsPhoenix is using Twitter,” says MarsPhoenix on, well, Twitter.

Under ‘About’ we see >>>

• Name MarsPhoenix
• Location North polar region of MARS!
• Web http://tinyurl.co…
• Bio I dig Mars!

“Whoever thought a NASA spacecraft could be so adept at social networking and Web 2.0?” – wonders Kenneth Chang in the New York Times, going on >>>

For users of Twitter, a Web microblogging service, the Phoenix Mars lander has been sending pithy news “tweets” to the cellphones and computers of interested “followers.”

As of late Friday, the Phoenix lander had 9,636 followers at Twitter, more than triple the number of a week earlier. According to twitterholic.com, it ranks No. 30 among all Twitter feeds in the solar system.

But, sigh, it’s not really the Mars lander.

Instead, “Veronica McGregor, the news services manager at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., has been playing the part of Phoenix each night after she gets home from work, forwarding questions to the science team and then posting answers.”

SHAME!!!

Oh, the SHAME!

. .Stumble It!

extra-terrestrial events – Denver Space Alien: the Real Deal!, May 31, 2008
New York Times – Denver Space Alien: the Real Deal!, May 31, 2008

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