Do you Twitter?

I do. Do you?

Just recently has Twitter become the talk of the town. Everywhere I go, I hear people talking about Twitter.Twitter-this, Twitter-that. I "tweet" quite frequently. Sometimes, they are deep and philosophical and other times, they are fun and sarcastic.

Mike Massimino, a mission specialist on the space shuttle Atlantis, announced this week that he will use Twitter from space during the shuttle's next mission in May. It is official, this trend has been taken to new heights. Pun intended--of course.

Massimino is a relatively new "tweet-er". Within two weeks of beginning to use Twitter, Massimino has accrued 119,893 followers. By the time you read this, he will most likely have more. He is proving himself to be a pretty popular guy. NASA's PR team is responsible the idea of Massimino twittering in preparation for the May mission as well as while actually in space.

If you don't Twitter, you should. Mike goes by Astro_Mike.
Go follow him and I'll see you on Twitter.