It’s tough to be the CIA these days. At worst, you’re a joke. At best, you’re the washed-up spooks that everyone used to be afraid of before the NSA rolled in and made spying on innocent civilians into an art form. So what’s a shadowy government organization to do? Dick around on Twitter, I guess.
At the very least, they’ve got a sense of humor about it:
We can neither confirm nor deny that this is our first tweet.
— CIA (@CIA) June 6, 2014
As of writing, the verified Twitter account went went from a little under 2,000 followers to 26 thousand in approximately half an hour, and only follows 25 other government organizations such as the U.S. Air Force, the White House, and Readygov. Let’s hope they don’t start branching out. I don’t want to look down at my phone one day to suddenly see the words “@CIA is following you.”
(via CIA on Twitter)
- Remember when Anonymous claimed that they took down the CIA website?
- And so did Lulsec that one time
- The CIA also launched a Wikileaks Task Force. Yes, it does spell “WTF”
