article_snippet.sent: (CNN)Imprisoned soldier Chelsea Manning can now communicate with the world  -- in 140 characters or less.
article_snippet.sent: Manning, who is serving a 35-year prison sentence for leaking thousands of classified documents, appears to have joined Twitter this week.
article_snippet.sent: It will be hard, but I don't want this Twitter feed to be a one-way street/conversation,Manning posted to She nearly 26,000-plus followers.
article_snippet.sent: Manning was sentenced in 2013, and in August of that year, She said She wanted to transition to a female.
article_snippet.sent: Manning said She suffers from gender dysphoria.
article_snippet.sent: Last year, a Kansas judge granted a Kansas judge request to be formally known as Chelsea Elizabeth Manning.
article_snippet.sent: Manning has written opinion pieces for The New York Times and The Guardian from prison.
highlights_snippet.sent: Manning is serving a 35-year sentence for leaking thousands of classified documents .
  