--- title: Edward Snowden Just Made a Snowstorm Twitter Pun description: This may be proof that Edward Snowden is the ultimate Twitter dad. canonical: https://time.com/4190346/edward-snowden-twitter-snow-joke/ author: Tessa Berenson article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-01-22T16:39:24.000Z article:modified_time: 2023-12-13T19:58:10.000Z og:title: Of Course Edward Snowden Had the Perfect Snow Pun og:description: Just in time for the blizzard og:url: https://time.com/4190346/edward-snowden-twitter-snow-joke/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Of Course Edward Snowden Had the Perfect Snow Pun twitter:description: Just in time for the blizzard twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Of Course Edward Snowden Had the Perfect Snow Pun  by [Tessa Berenson](https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Updated: Dec 13, 2023 7:58 PM UTCPublished: Jan 22, 2016 4:39 PM UTC  by [Tessa Berenson](https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Updated: Dec 13, 2023 7:58 PM UTCPublished: Jan 22, 2016 4:39 PM UTC **Correction appended—January, 22** Edward Snowden is many things: a former CIA employee, ex-pat, notorious anti-surveillance tech guru. But according to his latest tweet, his is also pretty good at making bad puns on Twitter. > [](https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/690560342154416128) (The tweet is a reference to the monster blizzard [bearing down on the East Coast](http://time.com/4190045/blizzard-snowstorm-east-coast/?xid=homepage) this weekend.) The pun drew thousands of retweets and comments from his more than 1 million followers, some teasing Snowden for how lame the joke was: > [](https://twitter.com/alexgottheruns/status/690560554008588288) > [](https://twitter.com/danielrhorton/status/690560496961978368) But others made bad puns of their own: > [](https://twitter.com/ryanlindberg/status/690562256208265216) > [](https://twitter.com/NoahMacMillan/status/690562849983172609) **Correction**: The original version of this story incorrectly described Edward Snowden. He is a former CIA employee and NSA contractor. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4190346/edward-snowden-twitter-snow-joke/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4190346/edward-snowden-twitter-snow-joke/"},"headline":"Of Course Edward Snowden Had the Perfect Snow Pun","datePublished":"2016-01-22T16:39:24.000Z","dateModified":"2023-12-13T19:58:10.000Z","description":"Just in time for the blizzard","url":"https://time.com/4190346/edward-snowden-twitter-snow-joke/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Internet","twitter","Edward Snowden"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Tessa Berenson","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4190346/edward-snowden-twitter-snow-joke/","name":"Of Course Edward Snowden Had the Perfect Snow Pun"}}]}] ```