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The Central Intelligence Agency scored big Friday afternoon when the clandestine agency launched its new Twitter account with the tweet, 鈥淲e can neither confirm nor deny that this is our first tweet."

Within an hour, more than 60,000 Twitter users signed up to follow the new聽, and a torrent of tickled tweets commending the agency鈥檚 sense of humor flooded the Twitterverse.

The agency Twitter account will feature 鈥減hotos, reflections on intelligence history, and fun facts from the CIA World Factbook鈥� as well as career postings and shots from the CIA Museum, according to聽. The release also says that the agency will participate in Throwback Thursday (#tbt), a weekly trend when social media users post old photographs of themselves.

The agency also launched a Facebook account this month, though that account hasn鈥檛 yet garnered nearly as much attention. So far, fewer than 300 people 鈥渓ike鈥澛犅爏ince its inception on June 1. The agency already had a website and Flickr and You Tube accounts.

This may be the first official CIA Twitter account, but the agency is no stranger to social media. Agents have been mining tweets for intelligence for years in a social media-tracking center,聽. It's a point that many users had a bit of fun with Friday.

The CIA鈥檚 foray into social media came less than a week after a New York Times article based on documents revealed by former NSA-contractor Edward Snowden sparked concerns that the National Security Agency has been amassing a database of photos collected via social media.

Not all Twitter users were so eager to joke about the nation's clandestine activities.