American most wanted internet tech geek Edward Snowden, surface back online yesterday after several years in exile at undisclosed location.
The fugitive US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden has opened an account on the micro-blogging online social network website Twitter.
For those of you who don’t know who Edward Snowden is? I will ditched you with short biography of Edward Snowden and reason for him be on American most want list.
Edward Snowden is an American privacy activist. A computer professional, former CIA employee, and former government contractor, Snowden leaked classified information from the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) in 2013. The information revealed numerous global surveillance programs, many run by the NSA and the Five Eyes with the cooperation of telecommunication companies and European governments.
On June 21, 2013, the U.S. Department of Justice unsealed charges against Snowden of two counts of violating the Espionage Act and theft of government property. Mr Snowden is believed to have downloaded 1.7 million secret documents before he left the US.On June 23, he flew to Moscow, Russia, where he reportedly remained for over a month. Later that summer, Russian authorities granted him a one-year temporary asylum which was later extended to three years. As of 2015, he was still living in an undisclosed location in Russia while seeking asylum elsewhere.
In his opening tweet Snowden says :
Can you hear me now?
— Edward Snowden (@Snowden) September 29, 2015
While his profile says: “He used to work for the government. Now I work for the public”.
In his second tweet – a reply to US astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson – Mr Snowden joked:
.@neiltyson Thanks for the welcome. And now we’ve got water on Mars! Do you think they check passports at the border? Asking for a friend.
— Edward Snowden (@Snowden) September 29, 2015
And Neil deGrasse is his bestest Twitter friend.
.@neiltyson Hero, traitor — I’m just a citizen with a voice. [1/2]
— Edward Snowden (@Snowden) September 29, 2015
.@neiltyson Surveillance never sleeps, and secret projects @FreedomofPress are keeping me busy, but I still find time for cat pictures.
— Edward Snowden (@Snowden) September 29, 2015
In less down hours on social media Twitter, Snowden shows his dominance supremacy as he gathered about 923 thousands follows.