It’s reported there's no hiding
from the @CIA now, though it isn't following any non-government Twitter users
yet.
The Central Intelligence Agency joined Twitter Friday,
racking up over 60,000 followers within an hour of its first tweet:
The message, a joking reference to a “glamor response,” was re-tweeted 50,000 times. In a state release announcing its “social media
expansion,” the CIA said that it planned to tweet throwback Thursday photos,
fun facts, and agency updates. The CIA also recently joined Facebook.
The CIA’s Twitter profile description reads, “We are the
Nation’s first line of defense. We accomplish what others cannot accomplish and
go where others cannot go.”
The “glamor response” was first popularized by the CIA in
1975 after a reporter began digging around regarding the attempted salvaging of
a sunken Russian submarine. After the reporter accused the CIA of keeping the
salvaging and reporting about it under wraps, the CIA said it would “neither
confirm nor deny” the project or its efforts to quash the story around it.
A CIA spokesman said someone had been impersonating the
agency on Twitter, which led officials to file an impersonation complaint that
eventually secured the @CIA handle for Langley. “This has been a lengthy
process,” spokesman Todd Ebitz said. “It’s been in the works for a long time.”
CIA joins other government agencies, such as the FBI and the
U.S. Secret Service, on the social media site. Welcome to the 21st century,
CIA!
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