October 1, 2015 at 22:51Snowden forgot to turn off Twitter notifications and received 47 GB of emails
It’s likely that when Edward Snowden started his @Snowden Twitter account on September 29th , he didn’t expect that in just a couple of days he would have more than a million followers. As a result of the fact that Edward did not turn off the notification of the service about retweets, personal messages and new followers, he received a huge number of letters with notifications about this by e-mail - their volume was 47 GB. About this trouble, Snowden himself said:
Another point is interesting, giving some idea of what kind of e-mail service a former intelligence officer uses. If you try to recover the password from the @Snowden account using the standard password recovery function, you can find that Edward uses the following email: sn*****@a***.*** . In addition, as journalists noted , before the account belonged to a man named Jay Snowden. If desired, you can find the only tweet of the previous owner.
From the tweets of Snowden, you can make some impression of his personality. For example, he subscribed to the only Twitter account of his former NSA employer , but he ignored his girlfriend, a dancerLindsey Mills , who uses the microblogging service quite actively (although it is rumored that they already live together). At the same time, Edward does not forget to troll the special services, noting that “in the meantime, a thousand people have just opened Twitter at Fort Meade [there is the NSA headquarters]:”
So far, Snowden prefers to communicate using tweets only with the famous physicist and popularizer of science Neil Degrass Tyson, discussing with him the discovery of water on Mars. A little earlier, Tyson and Snowden had a StarTalk podcast together, during which Edward expressed the curious idea that encryption could make the Earth invisible in the radio range and aliens could not find us.
Snowden, despite his ambiguous position in Russia, has recently begun to appear more and more in the headlines of the media. He won the Swedish Lifetime Achievement Award; the documentary about Snowden Citizen 4, filmed by journalist Laura Poitras, won an Oscar for best feature film. In addition, British bookmakers consider Edward is one of ten people who may receive the Nobel Peace Prize this year.
I forgot to turn off notifications. Twitter sent me an email for each: Follow Favorite Retweet DM 47 gigs of notifications. #lessonlearned
- Edward Snowden (@Snowden) October 1, 2015Another point is interesting, giving some idea of what kind of e-mail service a former intelligence officer uses. If you try to recover the password from the @Snowden account using the standard password recovery function, you can find that Edward uses the following email: sn*****@a***.*** . In addition, as journalists noted , before the account belonged to a man named Jay Snowden. If desired, you can find the only tweet of the previous owner.
From the tweets of Snowden, you can make some impression of his personality. For example, he subscribed to the only Twitter account of his former NSA employer , but he ignored his girlfriend, a dancerLindsey Mills , who uses the microblogging service quite actively (although it is rumored that they already live together). At the same time, Edward does not forget to troll the special services, noting that “in the meantime, a thousand people have just opened Twitter at Fort Meade [there is the NSA headquarters]:”
Meanwhile, a thousand people at Fort Meade just opened Twitter.
- Edward Snowden (@Snowden) September 29, 2015So far, Snowden prefers to communicate using tweets only with the famous physicist and popularizer of science Neil Degrass Tyson, discussing with him the discovery of water on Mars. A little earlier, Tyson and Snowden had a StarTalk podcast together, during which Edward expressed the curious idea that encryption could make the Earth invisible in the radio range and aliens could not find us.
Snowden, despite his ambiguous position in Russia, has recently begun to appear more and more in the headlines of the media. He won the Swedish Lifetime Achievement Award; the documentary about Snowden Citizen 4, filmed by journalist Laura Poitras, won an Oscar for best feature film. In addition, British bookmakers consider Edward is one of ten people who may receive the Nobel Peace Prize this year.