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Canada’s spy agency developed a new external communications plan and kicked around ideas for its first tweet before stepping out of the cyber shadows in July.

Internal documents obtained by the Citizen through access to information show how the Canadian Security Intelligence Service spitballed some options for the agency’s first tweet July 13 before settling on, “Yes, we’re on Twitter. Now it’s your turn to follow us.”

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It notched more than 1,000 retweets and 1,400 likes.

The agency had four options for cheeky tweets ready to roll, according to a Twitter game plan. The three left on the cutting room floor were:

So, we’re on Twitter. #WhatWeDoWednesday may be a challenge for us.

(redacted) Yes (redacted) (redacted) we’re (redacted) on (redacted) (redacted) Twitter. #LearningCurve

In honour of Twitter launching 10 years ago this month, we suddenly decided to join. #LateToTheParty

There was some talk in emails about potentially crowdsourcing recommendations for the first tweet from all CSIS staff. One staffer served up 13 suggestions, including “Terrorists shaken, spies stirred.”