Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Godwin's Law goes Web 2.0!

Twhitler (seemingly put together by a fan of the B3ta website) collects Twitter posts about Hitler. Some of them are perfectly sensible, discussing the movie Valkyrie, mustaches, or really unpleasant people. Other posts are not:
  • Obama's Czars are similar in power to the "ministers" under Stalin or Hitler. Communism, Marxism, Facism, same. USA capitalists! Bye Obama
  • all atheists are not evil, yet you would defend atheists like Mao, Hitler, Stalin, Castro, and their murderous actions?
  • but criticizing organic producers makes you no better than Hitler. Did you not consider such things ?
  • In that case, perhaps the ultimate insult is: "God is YOU. You killed more Jews than even Hitler! Hitler didn't let Jesus die!"
  • There was another guy whose government who ran the Health Plan for his country. His name: Adolph Hitler. He killed 6 million Jews using it.
  • Stickers on the back of a truck: 'Ill forgive Jane Fonda when the Jews forgive Hitler' and one with an eagle giving the middle talon tha ...
  • Its not politically correct to say so but islamofacists are selling us down the river Somebody should bring back Hitler Im voting BNP in
  • WOW: Justice Scalia Said Supreme Court Will Hear Case of Obama Birth Eligibility- Hitler's birth records were c...
  • Obama is just a black version of Hitler and Stalin...each brought their country to fall
  • next obama will call for experiments on humans in his health care plan, like hitler did
  • Have you ever noticed that if you rearranged the letters in mother in law, they come out to Woman Hitler?
So it's nice to find the occasional reasonable Hitler reference:
  • After the Gottfried as Hitler movie, watched Killer Klowns From Outer Space. Dreamed that Hitler was a Jewish clown who juggled popcorn.
How it works? You can search Twitter for posts containing any word, and their API (application programming interface) makes it easy to write a website that reads information from Twitter. This makes it easy to use Twitter for market research, but also makes it easy to find all the stupidness being posted. I've removed the names from the above posts, but it would be really easy to find them.

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