Edward Snowden joined Twitter today
Can you hear me now?
— Edward Snowden (@Snowden) September 29, 2015
and was immediately granted a verified account.
The guys over at Radix must be delighted, as his profile link points to a .press domain – freedom.press
And he’s already poking fun at the NSA:
Meanwhile, a thousand people at Fort Meade just opened Twitter.
— Edward Snowden (@Snowden) September 29, 2015
Whose Twitter account is currently the only one he’s following …though he’s already got over 1/2 million followers!
Twitter themselves have been tracking the world’s reaction:
https://twitter.com/twitter/status/648938950812274688
And of course pretty much every media outlet is covering the story ..
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Snowden Joins Twitter – Internet Explodes! http://t.co/9t9HFMBPmq ó @blacknight
@conn @blacknight I might have been a bit hyperbolic with my title :)
@mneylon @blacknight It’s the Internet. You can never have too much hyperbole! :D