CIA Live-Tweets The Osama Bin Laden Raid

This @cia 's social media campaign is serioulsy inappropriate... and I'll leave it at that. pic.twitter.com/KgzifdjVk7

— Liri Andersson (@liriandersson) May 2, 2016

Washington Post: CIA tweets U.S. military raid that killed Osama bin Laden — five years later

Navy SEALs may have killed Osama bin Laden in a raid five years ago Sunday, but anyone following the CIA on Twitter might think it all just happened. In a deeply bizarre social marketing move Sunday, the agency “live-tweeted” the raid that led to bin Laden’s death — but it did so five years later.

For anyone who may not be familiar with the term “live tweeting” — an audience that may include the CIA — it refers to the act of reporting something on Twitter as it happens in real time. Sure, by its very nature, that sometimes includes a short lag time. Maybe a few seconds. But in this case, it was five years.

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WNU Editor: The CIA Twitter page is here. All tweets in reference to the raid (and reaction) are at the following link .... #UBLRaid.

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