CIA "Vengeful Librarians" Monitor Up To 5 Million Overseas Tweets Per Day

The CIA is actively monitoring social media, and Twitter specifically, to help predict uprisings or measure the pulse of a particular region.

In their Virginia-based “unassuming brick building”, the CIA follows up to 5 million tweets per day to get a real-time handle on events and moods around the world.

The Associated Press got an exclusive look at the media monitoring arm of the CIA this week, the first organization to be granted press access to this super-secret division.

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