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05-29-2014, 08:01 PM
Edward S**wden Is a #Patriot, Twitter Users Say
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Hoping to spur conversation about its big Edward S**wden interview, NBC News asked its viewers to vote on their view of the leaker.
Distilling the debate around S**wden's leaks into a black-and-white question (or maybe red-and-blue), NBC wanted to k**w: Was the NSA leaker a #patriot or a #traitor?
#Patriot (https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Patriot&src=hash) or #Traitor (https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Traitor&src=hash)? Weigh in as you watch #InsideS**wden (https://twitter.com/search?q=%23InsideS**wden&src=hash) http://t.co/Rwz28jolNT pic.twitter.com/uYoNy7Px2u (http://t.co/uYoNy7Px2u)
— NBC News (@NBCNews) May 29, 2014 (https://twitter.com/NBCNews/statuses/471826786917961728)
Well, the results (https://c3.datawrapper.de/tkHDk/2/) are in.
The outcome was "extremely close" in the lead-up to the program, NBC News said (http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/people-have-tweeted-s**wden-traitor-or-patriot-n117096), but over a 36-hour period that included the special, tweets mentioning #Patriot outnumbered #Traitor, with nearly 60% of Twitter users calling S**wden a "#Patriot." Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/05/29/edward-s**wden-patriot/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
More about Twitter (http://mashable.com/category/twitter/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), Us World (http://mashable.com/us-world/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), Us (http://mashable.com/us/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), and Edward S**wden (http://mashable.com/category/edward-s**wden/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/mash.to/rss;pos=atf;tag=ad;mtype=standard;type=rss;sz=300x 250;ord=1401379334 (http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/mash.to/rss;pos=atf;tag=ad;mtype=standard;type=rss;sz=300x 250;ord=1401379334)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/yZzsI0hpjRU
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Hoping to spur conversation about its big Edward S**wden interview, NBC News asked its viewers to vote on their view of the leaker.
Distilling the debate around S**wden's leaks into a black-and-white question (or maybe red-and-blue), NBC wanted to k**w: Was the NSA leaker a #patriot or a #traitor?
#Patriot (https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Patriot&src=hash) or #Traitor (https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Traitor&src=hash)? Weigh in as you watch #InsideS**wden (https://twitter.com/search?q=%23InsideS**wden&src=hash) http://t.co/Rwz28jolNT pic.twitter.com/uYoNy7Px2u (http://t.co/uYoNy7Px2u)
— NBC News (@NBCNews) May 29, 2014 (https://twitter.com/NBCNews/statuses/471826786917961728)
Well, the results (https://c3.datawrapper.de/tkHDk/2/) are in.
The outcome was "extremely close" in the lead-up to the program, NBC News said (http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/people-have-tweeted-s**wden-traitor-or-patriot-n117096), but over a 36-hour period that included the special, tweets mentioning #Patriot outnumbered #Traitor, with nearly 60% of Twitter users calling S**wden a "#Patriot." Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/05/29/edward-s**wden-patriot/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
More about Twitter (http://mashable.com/category/twitter/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), Us World (http://mashable.com/us-world/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), Us (http://mashable.com/us/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), and Edward S**wden (http://mashable.com/category/edward-s**wden/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/mash.to/rss;pos=atf;tag=ad;mtype=standard;type=rss;sz=300x 250;ord=1401379334 (http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/mash.to/rss;pos=atf;tag=ad;mtype=standard;type=rss;sz=300x 250;ord=1401379334)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/yZzsI0hpjRU