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**Title:** A Notorious Twitter Exchange (2008)
**Summary:**
* A young person celebrated getting a NASA internship on Twitter with a profane post.
* Homer Hickam, a high-ranking NASA employee (on the National Space Council), responded with a single word: "Language".
* The intern replied with an obscene message, not realizing Hickam's influential position.
* The exchange went viral, catching NASA's attention, and the intern lost the internship.
* Ironically, it was the intern's friends' defensive tweets (spamming NASA) that drew more attention to the incident, not Hickam's actions.
* Hickam later defended the intern in a blog post, accepted their apology, and even offered to help them secure a new position in the aerospace industry.
Here are the key facts extracted from the text, numbered and in short sentences, excluding opinions:
1. The story takes place on Twitter in August 2008.
2. A young person, referred to as Charles but later identified as a different individual, tweeted about being accepted for a NASA internship.
3. The tweet contained profanity, celebrating the achievement.
4. A man named Homer Hickam responded to the tweet with a single word: "Language".
5. The original poster replied to Hickam with further profanity.
6. Homer Hickam is a member of the National Space Council, which oversees NASA.
7. The original poster lost their NASA internship.
8. Homer Hickam did not directly cause the loss of the internship.
9. The loss was due to NASA's attention being drawn to the tweet through hashtags used by the poster's friends.
10. Homer Hickam wrote a blog post about the incident, defending the individual and explaining the situation.
11. In the blog post, Hickam mentioned he had nothing to do with the internship's withdrawal.
12. The individual who lost the internship reached out to Hickam with an apology, which he accepted.
13. Hickam attempted to help the individual secure a new position in the aerospace industry.
14. Despite efforts, the individual did not regain the NASA internship but remains qualified and active in pursuing the field.