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
FSB would know RT @CIA We can neither confirm nor deny that this is our first tweet.
— Bridget Johnson (@Bridget_PJM) June 6, 2014
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