Last Sunday, at about the same time that I was working on my sister’s computers and watching the Phoenix Mars Lander do it’s thing on nasa.gov, someone who goes by the online handle of “Mrs. Happy Pants” was accepting a marriage proposal marriage via the Internet mini-blog service called Twitter. I heard about this by following the Twitter messages (“tweets”) posted by Will Pate from Command-N posted a link and the following comment on his Twitter stream:

“Woah, marriage requested and accepted on Twitter”

Here was Mrs. Happy Pants’ response to the marriage proposal:

“@markdavidson Yes! I will marry you and I am so happy! Since the first time we saw each other I knew that I would be with you forever. YES!!” Mrs. Happy Pants

Wow, indeed. Well, at least they’ve had the added benefit of having actually seen each other. I wonder if “Mrs. Happy Pants” was her handle before the proposal, or because of the proposal? It’ll be interesting to see if the relationship will survive the conversion to something often greater than 140 characters in length (and possibly far less!). jbb

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