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Beijing time June 7 morning news, United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) that has been on the social networking site "Twitter" (Twitter) and "Facebook" (Facebook) to create an account. United States CIA hopes it will more convenient communication, communicate directly with the public.

United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has released the first Twitter message on Friday. CIA accept Twitter's slower, United States intelligence agencies, such as the National Security Agency (NSA), which had been started using Twitter.

The first Twitter message from the CIA has a sense of humor: "we can't confirm or deny that it was our first Twitter message. "The CIA's Twitter account soon attracted a lot of attention. In the United States at 1 o'clock in the afternoon of 45 local time Friday after publishing the first message, the account has attracted 85,200 followers, and the first message is forwarded reached 70,000 times. "The CIA" has become one of Twitter's trending topics.

The CIA has plans to join Twitter for some time. However, unlike other major government agencies, especially confidential agency similar to the decision-making is slow. A CIA spokesman Dien·boyide (Dean Boyd), said: "this is a long process, but we have been working in this field for a long time. ”

Earlier, the @CIA account is held by individuals. Earlier this year, the CIA contacted Twitter, hoping to recover the account. Boyd said: "somebody via Twitter posing as the CIA. CIA has made a complaint to Twitter, and we recovered the @CIA account. For government agencies, and this is the rule. ”

Before being held by individuals, shared the same initials @CIA account had belonged to the Cleveland Institute of art. The Academy in 2013, abandoned this account, in order to avoid confusion and the CIA.

United States many other intelligence agencies also have Twitter accounts. These accounts are typically used to publish news and photos. CIA full of humor first Twitter message set high standards to operate the account in the future, other intelligence agencies to respond to the arrival of CIA. For example, the United States National Geospatial Intelligence Agency account number @NGA_GEOINT post a message saying: "Welcome to Twitter! Can't wait to be with you in a secret base in the Communist Party! ”

United States Central Intelligence Agency has its own official site and Flicker on video site Youtube and photo-sharing Web site where you have an account.