The Central Intelligence Agency is finally on Twitter — officially, at least.
Shortly before 2 p.m. on Friday, @CIA said hello to the world with a joke.
We can neither confirm nor deny that this is our first tweet.
— CIA (@CIA) June 6, 2014So far the secretive spy agency is only following 25 accounts, all but one of them a government account, so for the time being, curious citizens will have to follow the CIA, not the other way around.
Twitter’s government team confirmed Friday afternoon that the account is real. A press release from the CIA also noted that the agency has also joined Facebook. It already had a YouTube account. The news has already inspired a backlash. In many often profane responses, writers, civil liberties and human rights advocates cataloged the CIA’s long history of involvement in overthrowing legitimately elected governments, torture, and its drone program.
Meredith Clark
Meredith Clark is a freelance writer and editor. She was previously a senior news producer for "Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj," a reporter with MSNBC.com, the digital politics and culture editor at Glamour and a senior news and politics editor at Refinery29. She has written for Vulture, Rolling Stone, Self, Marie Claire, Cosmopolitan, The Daily Beast and Bustle. Recommended
