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CIA joins Twitter



Social media has become such an important element in our day-to-day lives that it’s no surprise companies and government agencies are trying to gain our attention via these mediums.

The CIA decided to join in the fun, too. After creating a Facebook page earlier this week, the Central Intelligence Agency in the United States also created a Twitter account to increase its social media presence.

The agency is supposed to post job listings, photos and trivia about the CIA, as well as “reflections on intelligence history” on its Facebook page, so it is quite likely that at least some of this will trickle into the Twitter account.

Furthermore, it looks like the CIA also wants to share unclassified content with its followers, or at least that’s what its second tweet says.

The first message it sent, however, is quite funny, as you can see below, obviously hinting to part of the answer often given by intelligence agencies when it comes to sensitive topics – ‘we can neither confirm nor deny that the rumors are true.’



This is, in fact, a standard answer when government agencies want to keep a shroud of secrecy around a topic or simply do not want to share certain information with the public for whatever reason.

“We are the Nation’s first line of defense. We accomplish what others cannot accomplish and go where others cannot go,” reads the CIA’s account description. There are currently some 431 thousand followers for the account.

The first message sent by the CIA attracted over 230 thousand retweets and over 140 thousand favorites.