CIA takes to Twitter: 'We can neither confirm or deny this is our first tweet'

America's Central Intelligence Agency created a Twitter account yesterday. And it got a big reaction: 50,000 people followed it in its first 50 minutes on the social platform.Its first tweet was the tongue in cheek:

We can neither confirm nor deny that this is our first tweet.

— CIA (@CIA) June 6, 2014

Th CIA was already using the popular site for investigative purposes. So what the agency will actually do with the account — besides author cheeky tweets — remains to be seen, although it has promised "great unclassified content".

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

— CIA (@CIA) June 7, 2014

The FBI has been on Twitter for some time and has amassed 794,000 followers. It regularly posts names and photos of wanted suspects in its feed.Meanwhile, here are some reactions to the CIA on Twitter:Prof. Jeff H Jarvis @ProfJeffJarvis: It's good to see the@cia swapping its waterboard for a Tweetdeck.@randlechris contributing editor @HazlittMag: the @CIA tweeting Borowitz-level anti-jokes is a bit of a step down from secretly funding abstract expressionismFrom Benjamin Freed @brfreed: Be honest: Laughing at the CIA's joke is like laughing at the boss's joke. You'd rather groan, but you enjoy living more.@onekade:You know who isn't laughing at your joke, @CIA? The 16 year old US citizen you shredded to bits with a missile. Seth Fiegerman, @sfiegerman tweeted: Really can’t imagine anything more terrifying than getting a notification that the @CIA is following youAs of the time of writing, the CIA has amassed 329,000 followers.