CIA Joins Twitter, Makes a Funny

The Central Intelligence Agency joined Twitter today, with a fiery debut:

We can neither confirm nor deny that this is our first tweet.

— CIA (@CIA) June 6, 2014

Which, naturally, got a lot of reaction.

Ha, but origin of this is creepy as hell: http://t.co/9hNMLoF5Q1 RT @CIA: We can neither confirm nor deny that this is our first tweet.

— Dan Munz (@dan_munz) June 6, 2014

Waka waka!!!! RT @CIA: We can neither confirm nor deny that this is our first tweet.

— Lee Pacchia (@leepacchia) June 6, 2014

Seriously doubt the @CIA is only following 25 people.

— Jason Gay (@jasonWSJ) June 6, 2014

White House trying not to accidentally out the agent behind the new @CIA account.

— Razor (@hale_razor) June 6, 2014

Now what would be really funny is if the @CIA account started following @Angela_Merkel

— Max Fisher (@Max_Fisher) June 6, 2014

Welcome to Twitter! Can’t wait to work with you on [REDACTED] :-) RT @CIA: We can neither confirm nor deny that this is our first tweet.

— NGA (@NGA_GEOINT) June 6, 2014

The @CIA got control of that handle a year ago but I’m guessing they decided post-Snowden wasn’t a good time to ‘get social’

— Martin Bryant (@MartinSFP) June 6, 2014

If I was running the @CIA Twitter account, I would occasionally follow random people and unfollow after a few hours. Just for fun.

— Erin Sorensen (@erinsorensen) June 6, 2014