 "Twitter sends NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden 47 GB of notification")
Looks like Edward Snowden's excitement of joining Twitter just got lowered after he received 47 GB of notification from the micro-blogging site unknowingly.
The 32-year-old NSA whistleblower forgot to check his notification settings, as he was unaware that Twitter sends e-mail notifications for pretty much every social interaction, reports The Verge.
Snowden, who got 1.19 million followers within 27 hours of joining the social networking site, tweeted, "Whoopsies. I forgot to turn off notifications. Twitter sent me an email for each: Follow, Favorite, Retweet, DM 47 gigs of notifications.
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