The US’ intelligence agencies reportedly have their own private version of the microblogging site Twitter.
As Twitter is officially banned within most workplaces, for being a tricky ’140-character platform’, Pentagon and other intelligence officials have taken to a privately run, internal microblogging service called as eChirp, which appears to be a replica of the original site.
However, a 2011 situation about Libyan unrest in which generals realized they could get more up-to-date information from Twitter than from their own analysts led to the White House provide access to a read-only reprint version of Twitter, making eChirp only secondary.
The report said that a password-protected subdomain on the US intelligence community’s Intelink intranet is labeled ‘Chirp’, suggesting it may be the main way authorized users access the eChirp service.
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