Friday, 6 June 2014

CIA joins Twitter, opens account with a joke, says 'We can neither confirm nor deny'

The US' spy agency CIA has joined Twitter and Facebook, becoming an instant hit on the social media while sparking online debates over the move.

In a matter of less than nine hours, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) had attracted 268,000 followers on Twitter on Friday.

And its first tweet, was re-tweeted as many as 170,000 times. Nearly a lakh people made it their favourite tweet.

After seven hours of CIA's debut on the micro-blogging site, the American spy agency made its second tweet. This time it was to thank its followers.

"Thank you for the @Twitter welcome! We look forward to sharing great #unclassified content with you," it said.

The news of CIA joining Twitter spread like a wild fire and was one of the most debated issues of the day...

Source: News in Hindi
 
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