Edward Snowden Opens Twitter Account, Follows Only the NSA
As Snowden’s public profile continues to grow, it will be interesting to see how governments navigate their criticisms of him.
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It sounds like a Late Show joke, but it’s not: Edward Snowden joined Twitter yesterday and his first follow was the NSA.
At a pace faster than Caitlyn Jenner’s Twitter debut, Snowden’s account has over a million followers. One has to wonder what took him so long to come around to the social media site. Even Twitter got excited and published at heat map of who and where people were tweeting about @Snowden.
Today @Snowden joined Twitter, and here’s the world’s response. pic.twitter.com/d6HgVvdRsf
— Twitter (@twitter) September 29, 2015
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