Britain’s GCHQ Spies are Officially on Twitter: On Monday, Britain’s secret eavesdropping agency i.e. GCHQ have joined Twitter and emerging from the shadows with a simple message of ‘Hello, World’.
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Britain’s GCHQ Spies are Officially on Twitter
The cyber-intelligence listening post has become the first of the country’s spy agencies to join online social networking service.
Previously, the Government Communications Headquarters kept itself to itself but now it is moving towards greater transparency of following revelations by the fugitive US intelligence contractor i.e. Edward Snowden, he claimed that GCHQ was conducting the bulk data collection.
An unnamed spokesman said that, it is the very big step for the organization as they become more open about the work they do to keep Britain safe. They want GCHQ to be more accessible and to help public to understand more about their work.
They also want to reach out to the technical community and to add their voice to social media conservations about the technology, along with cyber-security and math’s.
The Twitter account will be used to highlight publications, opinion pieces, events and blogs.
‘Hello, world’ this was the chosen as the first tweet as it is often as the first thing that computer whizzes learn to write in the coding programs.
In southwest England, in the spa town of Cheltenham the GCHQ in a based giant and ring shaped building nicknamed as ‘the doughnut’.
Along with the government, royal accounts and law enforcement, among these few dozen Twitter accounts was being openly followed by the GCHQ and it was the official James Bond one.
The US Central Intelligence Agency wasted no time to welcome GCHQ to Twitter. The agency’s also debut on the platform sparked some humorous tweets.
Like, one Twitter user wrote that: ‘GCHQ is now going to follow you and it will be going to freak some people out.
Another said: ‘GCHQ joins Twitter as if they were not already here’.
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