LMAO, People Thought Snowden Was Dead Because of a Tweet

After NSA whistleblower and millennial sex symbol Edward Snowden tweeted a mysterious string of characters on Friday afternoon, conspiracy theorists and concerned fans feared he might be dead when Sputnik, a Russian news site, reported the now-deleted code might be a "dead man's switch," which is apparently something Snowden could have set up "if he did not check in to the computer at a certain time," according to Inquisitr.