Yes, you may tweet from the North Pole

Twitter’s uses get stranger and stranger as people outfit hardware to tweet on the social network.
There’s a device that that will tweet when bread is ready out of a baker’s oven and Kickbee’s a product that tweets whenever a baby kicks inside its pregnant mother. Now there’s a crew of explorers navigating through the quickly-opening Northwest Passage that have outfitted their ship to tweet its coordinates from far beyond where mobile carriers can reach.
The Northwest Passage is a sea route through the Arctic, north of Canada, that may become a major shortcut for shipping between Asia and North America as global warming thins the ice during summer months. A four-person crew on a 40-foot yacht (not a giant icebreaker) is traversing the region and is documenting the way climate change has irrevocably changed the region through tweets. They’ve rigged their ship with satellite technology from Blue Sky Network to tweet their coordinates or other observations at one-hour intervals.
OK, sure, we’ve all done the obligatory tweet from airplanes and places like the top of Half Dome. But on the sea, a solid Internet connection is hard to come by. If a research ship has collected a mass amount of data, they’ll upload it when they reach a port. In-flight wi-fi, which is finally beginning to take off with companies like Virgin America, also requires satellite telecommunications for trans-oceanic trips.
But for the most part, ships out in these distant regions can be a day or more away from contact with another vessel. (That’s why large naval ships seem inexplicably so vulnerable to bands of Somalian pirates or why it can takes days to track down planes at sea.) Blue Sky Network has a built a two-messaging system for planes and ships to communicate with the Iridium satellite system, a network of 66 satellites that provides coverage for the entire Earth. The 25-person company is privately held and based in La Jolla, California.
Perhaps if none of Twitter’s hypothetical business models pan out, they can at least become the new black box for airplanes.
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