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| Edward Snowden joins Twitter and follows NSA | |
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| Fugitive US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden has opened an account on the social network website Twitter. | Fugitive US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden has opened an account on the social network website Twitter. |
| His opening tweet was: "Can you hear me now?" | His opening tweet was: "Can you hear me now?" |
| In his profile, Mr Snowden says he "used to work for the government. Now I work for the public". He quickly gathered thousands of followers. | |
| So far, Mr Snowden, who is wanted in the US for leaking secrets, only follows one other Twitter user - the US National Security Agency (NSA). | |
| He is believed to be living in Moscow where he is sheltering from US prosecutors. | |
| In his second tweet - a reply to US astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson - Mr Snowden joked: "Now we've got water on Mars! Do you think they check passports at the border? Asking for a friend." | |
| Within 50 minutes of joining, he had accumulated more than 134,000 followers. | |
| In June, former Olympian and reality TV star Caitlyn Jenner became the fastest person on Twitter to reach one million followers - in just over four hours. | |
| Mr Snowden left the US in 2013 after leaking to the media details of extensive internet and phone surveillance by US intelligence. | |
| His information made global headlines when the Guardian newspaper reported that the NSA was collecting the telephone records of tens of millions of Americans. | |
| Mr Snowden is believed to have downloaded 1.7 million secret documents before he left the US. |