Convicted Leaker Chelsea Manning Apparently Joins Twitter From Prison
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ABC News(NEW YORK) — Convicted national security leaker Pvt. Chelsea Manning has apparently joined Twitter from prison.
A user using her name and photo published her first tweet on Friday afternoon and wrote several more throughout the day.
Born male as Bradley Manning, she was convicted of sending classified documents to the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks. In 2013, she was sentenced to 35 years in prison.
In her posts, Manning revealed her plans for Twitter, thanked her supporters, and shared the difficulties of tweeting while incarcerated.
This is my new twitter account =P
— Chelsea Manning (@xychelsea) April 3, 2015
She said she would be an active on Twitter – tweeting daily or weekly – but wanted them to be significant posts.
For those of you asking: I plan to tweet as freq. as possible; daily to weekly
— Chelsea Manning (@xychelsea) April 3, 2015
“I’m hoping to stay connected with this account as much as possible but would rather tweet about more meaningful things than not #lessismore,” she said.
In another post, Manning revealed the difficulties of posting from prison.
Tweeting from prison reqs a lot of effort and using a voice phone to dictate #90sproblems
— Chelsea Manning (@xychelsea) April 3, 2015
By Saturday morning, Manning had over 30,000 followers.
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