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Edward Snowden signs up to Twitter

Edward Snowden signs up to Twitter
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Fugitive US intelligence worker Edward Snowden has signed up to Twitter from exile in Russia. His first tweet, “Can you hear me now?” was re-tweeted

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Fugitive US intelligence worker Edward Snowden has signed up to Twitter from exile in Russia.

His first tweet, “Can you hear me now?” was re-tweeted 25,000 times in an hour.

He got 171 thousand followers in less than an hour but is following only one account himself – his former employer, the US National Security Agendy.

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