The Central Investigation Agency (CIA) on Sunday took to Twitter to announce that they were marking five years since the raid that killed Osama Bin Laden.
However, the way in which they decided to do it, raised eyebrows.
To mark the 5th anniversary of the Usama Bin Ladin operation in Abbottabad we will tweet the raid as if it were happening today.#UBLRaid
— CIA (@CIA) May 1, 2016
Twitter, didn't take kindly to this and decided to give it back to the CIA. Here are some responses.
@CIA @CochraneCBC Really is an extremely weird thing to do.
— Edward L. Riche (@EdwardLRiche) May 1, 2016
.@CIA pic.twitter.com/OnSQ079DXB
— Caroline Framke (@carolineframke) May 1, 2016
.@CIA pic.twitter.com/isJs0zhE8r
— Vann R. Newkirk II (@fivefifths) May 1, 2016
@CIA You're drunk.Go home.
— JohnnyJet (@JohnnyJet) May 1, 2016
@CIA You've lost the plot mate
— Luke O'Neil (@lukeoneil47) May 1, 2016
@CIA For the 10th anniversary, you should use memes.
— Alan Kestrel (@AlanKestrel750) May 1, 2016
.@CIA What if you didn't? What would that be like?
— Dan Telfer (@dantelfer) May 1, 2016
@Timccv164 @CIA they should do Bay of Pigs, next
— Parm (@ParmB) May 1, 2016
@Vghandi @CIA Why don't you guys tweet as though Hiroshima & Nagasaki is happening right now as well?
— Az (@AzTheBaz) May 1, 2016
.@CIA pic.twitter.com/Bl8mTBMJzx
— alba (@angstiness) May 1, 2016
@DTraynier @CIA pic.twitter.com/l8rcs5mdGk
— Gayle Thompson-Craig (@thommygunn) May 1, 2016
.@CIA "This totally won't make us look like a bunch of death cultists," said CIA's social media team. "What can possibly go wrong?"
— Obscurica (@Obscurica) May 1, 2016
.@CIA pic.twitter.com/fVTpRJapcD
— Freddie Campion (@FreddieCampion) May 1, 2016
The other tweets on the raid 'like it was happening today' can be found here.