The United States Central Intelligence Agency, the CIA, has opened its first official accounts on Twitter and Facebook, it announced on Friday.
The spy agency said it would help it to engage more directly with the public and make unclassified information on the agency "more accessible".
"We can neither confirm nor deny that this is our first tweet," the spy agency quipped in its first tweet.
Within five hours, it had already generated more than 200,000 followers.
Twittersphere frenzy
The agency confirmed the news of its launch on the social networking sites in a press release on Friday.
"By expanding to these platforms, CIA will be able to more directly engage with the public and provide information on CIA's mission, history, and other developments," said CIA Director John Brennan.
Followers can also look forward to images posted of artefacts on display at the CIA's museum, which is not open to the public, as well as updates to its "World Factbook" - a database of world leaders and maps.
The infamous response to journalists' queries cited in the CIA's first tweet reveals the agency's sense of humour, sending the international Twittersphere into an utter frenzy, the BBC's Aleem Maqbool says.
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