The National Intelligence Service agents posted about 1.2 million Twitter messages for last year's presidential election and general elections, prosecutors said Thursday. The NIS has been investigated that the NIS intervene in presidential election when held last year Dec. 19. A special investigation team of the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office showed that the alleged operation was not limited to comments on major Internet bulletin boards but extended to Twitter, with NIS agents allegedly posting and retweeting a total of 1.21 million messages ahead of the general elections and the presidential poll. "Of the 1.21 million tweets made by NIS agents, some 647,000 were about the election, and the other 562,000 were about politics," said a lead investigator. The prosecutors said that the 1.21 million posts were in violation of the election law and other relevant laws that ban NIS agents from intervening in politics. The investigator said that the original texts were 26,550 tweets and these writings have been tweeted, retweeted and automatically retweeted to add up to some 1.21 million posts.
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