CIA outwits impersonators by embracing Twitter, Facebook

Yahoo News ^ | 2014-06-06 | Eric Pfeiffer

[justlurking]

Apparently the good folks at the Central Intelligence Agency have decided that YOLO. On Friday, the CIA announced it was launching Twitter and Facebook accounts.

And the public seems eager to associate with the nation’s best-known intelligence-gathering entity — the CIA Twitter account had nearly 150,000 followers less than three hours after launching.

The agency’s first tweet:

We can neither confirm nor deny that this is our first tweet.— CIA (@CIA) June 6, 2014

[bayliving]

I’m sure the Gestapo and the SS were well liked in many civilian circles as well...

[Chuckster]

We can neither confirm nor deny that this is our first tweet.— CIA (@CIA)

Well, someone has a sense of humor.

[glorgau]

Yep, excellent first tweet - even though I think twitter is an utter waste of time.