CIA Goes Viral, Joins Twitter, Facebook
“The CIA announced yesterday that it had joined Twitter and Facebook.”
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has embraced social media and the public is loving it back.
The spy agency made the announcement Friday that it would launch accounts on both Facebook and Twitter.
It’s first tweet, “We can neither confirm nor deny that this is our first tweet,” had been retweeted over 75,000 times in just a few hours.
Espionage fans can follow the CIA on Twitter @CIA and on Facebook “for the latest CIA updates, #tbt (Throwback Thursday) photos, reflections on intelligence history, and fun facts from the CIA World Factbook,” the agency wrote in a statement.
The CIA also said the social media accounts would offer information about job postings, and provide glimpses of the CIA’s museum, “the best museum most people never get to see,” according to the agency.
“By expanding to these platforms, CIA will be able to more directly engage with the public and provide information on CIA’s mission, history, and other developments,” CIA Director John Brennan said in a public release.
