--- title: CIA Celebrates Twitterversary and Addresses Tupac's Whereabouts description: And a request from Ellen Degeneres canonical: https://time.com/2963775/cia-twitter-anniversary-tupac/ author: Joan E. Greve article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-07-07T21:47:14.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:11:27.015Z og:title: CIA Celebrates Twitterversary and Addresses Tupac's Whereabouts og:description: And a request from Ellen Degeneres og:url: https://time.com/2963775/cia-twitter-anniversary-tupac/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: CIA Celebrates Twitterversary and Addresses Tupac's Whereabouts twitter:description: And a request from Ellen Degeneres twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # CIA Celebrates Twitterversary and Addresses Tupac's Whereabouts by [Joan E. Greve](https://time.com/author/joan-greve/) ## Joan E. Greve Jul 7, 2014 9:47 PM UTC by [Joan E. Greve](https://time.com/author/joan-greve/) ## Joan E. Greve Jul 7, 2014 9:47 PM UTC The Central Intelligence Agency celebrated one full month on [Twitter](http://time.com/2839216/cia-twitter/) Monday. And so, to commemorate the occasion, the government agency decided to address five questions some of their followers had tweeted to them—including, do you know where Tupac is? > [](https://twitter.com/CIA/status/486253348073385985) > [](https://twitter.com/CIA/status/486255845588475905) They also cannot help you get back into your Twitter account because they do not know your password. (Or, so they claim.) > [](https://twitter.com/CIA/status/486253620040462336) And they addressed any possible hard feelings from Ellen Degeneres, who [tweeted](https://twitter.com/TheEllenShow/status/475010288547147777) a month ago when the CIA first joined Twitter that she hoped they would follow her back. > [](https://twitter.com/CIA/status/486254611250937857) The Tupac tweet had already garnered more than 20,000 retweets after roughly half an hour, but that’s nothing compared to their first tweet, which was retweeted over 300,000 times. > [](https://twitter.com/CIA/status/474971393852182528) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/2963775/cia-twitter-anniversary-tupac/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/2963775/cia-twitter-anniversary-tupac/"},"headline":"CIA Celebrates Twitterversary and Addresses Tupac's Whereabouts","datePublished":"2014-07-07T21:47:14.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:11:27.015Z","description":"And a request from Ellen Degeneres","url":"https://time.com/2963775/cia-twitter-anniversary-tupac/","keywords":["Newsfeed","twitter","National Security","Ellen Degeneres","CIA","tweet","Tupac","ellen"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Joan E. Greve","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/joan-greve/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/2963775/cia-twitter-anniversary-tupac/","name":"CIA Celebrates Twitterversary and Addresses Tupac's Whereabouts"}}]}] ```