The CIA drew a hail of ridicule and incomprehension when it unexpectedly posted a Twitter thread devoted to the hit superhero movie ‘Black Panther’. Some Twitter customers even suspected the spy company had been hacked.
The Central Intelligence Agency’s Twitter account launched into the weird thread throughout Sunday’s Academy Awards ceremony, quizzing their 2.5 million followers on all issues Wakanda – the fictional, high-tech, African nation within the Marvel movie.
The company introduced that they’d enlisted the assistance of a mysterious “top CIA scientist” named “Rebecca” to debate Wakanada’s technological advances and the feasibility of translating them to actual life.
Over a sequence of greater than a dozen tweets, the account polled its followers on what they assume “vibranium” is – the fictional steel that seems within the movie. Before stating the plain – “it isn’t real” – and lamenting that vibranium would make nice fits for “spies.”
Over a sequence of greater than a dozen tweets, the account polled its followers on what they assume “vibranium” is – the fictional steel that seems within the movie. Before stating the plain – “it isn’t real” – and lamenting that vibranium would make nice fits for “spies.”
The unusual dialogue then ventured additional into spy territory (which, whereas nonetheless bizarre, is at the least extra in line with the company’s ‘brand’) with a ballot asking which of the Wakandan applied sciences can be most helpful to “real-world spies.”
Are they really on the lookout for concepts? Have we stumbled right into a CIA focus group? Are all of us being tricked? At this level, who is aware of. Confused Twitter customers questioned many issues in regards to the thread – most of all how the company has nothing extra urgent for his or her “top CIA scientist” to do than submit tweets a few movie.