Edward Snowden, the former NSA analyst (Play / TV Globo / SEE)
Former analyst at the National Security Agency (NSA) of the United States, Edward Snowden, opened on Tuesday a Twitter account. In his first tweet, Snowden asked, "Can you hear me now?". Ironically, it follows a single profile on the social network: the American agency for which he worked.
"I used to work for the government. Now I work for the public. Director inFreedomofPress," said the former analyst in the description of your account, which takes its name fromSnowden. Through the nonprofit Freedom of the Press, Snowden works to safeguard the public interest journalism by exposing mismanagement, corruption and violation of the laws by the US government, according to the group's website .
Two hours after the release of the first tweet, over 337,000 users have come following the Snowden account verified as true by the social network. The first message Snowden, currently asylum in Russia,was retweetada for 43 thousand people and bookmarked the same number of users.
Different personalities welcomed the Snowden as astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, who said he felt a vibration "geek" with the entry on Twitter the "man behind the world's revelations of mass surveillance."
In the second message on the social network, Snowden thanked the words of astrophysicist and cited the recent revelations about the existence of water on Mars of the US Space Agency (NASA).
"neiltyson thanks for the welcome. Now we have water on Mars! Do you think they ask for passports at the border? A friend wants to know," he joked Snowden.
The former analyst was responsible for revealing the scope of spy programs mass that the NSA began using after the attacks of September 11 in New York.
The secret information disclosed by Snowden showed that Americans spied the personal communications of various world leaders regarded as allies, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Dilma Rousseff.
(With EFE)
