The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, one of the world’s foremost spy organisations, stepped into a rather public domain for the first time on Friday – Twitter.

After a lengthy legal battle against an apparent imposter who cornered the “@CIA” handle on the micro-blogging site, which the Agency clearly won, it announced its arrival today with a chuckle-inducing message:

The agency scooped up an impressive 100,000 followers in a couple of hours. It however follows only 25 accounts, all of them U.S. federal agency handles, including the FBI, Department of Homeland Security, NASA, Library of Congress, DARPA, Department of State, White House, ODNI and various military wings.

The Agency’s Twitter bio reads: “We are the Nation's first line of defence. We accomplish what others cannot accomplish and go where others cannot go.”

According to The Guardian the Agency’s public affairs director Dean Boyd gave details about the CIA’s legal challenge, saying, “There was someone out there impersonating CIA via Twitter. CIA filed an impersonation complaint with Twitter and they secured the @CIA account for us, which is routine for government agencies.”