The CIA's Twitter Experiment Has Gone Downhill Fast
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The CIA joined Twitter with a self-deprecating joke that many people, though not everyone, found funny:
We can neither confirm nor deny that this is our first tweet.
— CIA (@CIA) June 6, 2014
A month later, it's looking like the people who said that first tweet was too glib were on the right track. Today the CIA's account announced it would answer the "5 of the top questions" asked by Twitter users. Here are some of those answers.
No, we don’t know where Tupac is. #twitterversary
— CIA (@CIA) July 7, 2014
Sorry for not following you back @TheEllenShow. But if you visit us maybe we can take a selfie? #twitterversary
— CIA (@CIA) July 7, 2014
No, we don’t know your password, so we can’t send it to you. #sorrynotsorry #twitterversary
— CIA (@CIA) July 7, 2014
The most galling part of this might be that everyone, as New York's Stefan Becket points out, knows where Tupac is: he's dead. Either this line was written by someone who did not actually understand who Tupac is, and assumed that he was interchangeable with, say, Amelia Earhart or the Roswell alien, or it was written by someone who could not reason through the logical steps of a one-step joke. Either way, not a feather in the cap of our national intelligence organization.