200,000+ People Go “WTFCNN?!” in First 48hrs

| May 01, 2010 | 2 comments

Our launch of WTFCNN.com started with this TechCrunch story, thenwt the Twitter was all… a-twitter(?) about it. In fact, tweets are still regularly coming in at the time of this writing. In fact, it rocketed up /r/worldnews on reddit, scored well on Hacker News yesterday. Then it hit the digg frontpage.

There are evidently a lot of people who also go “WTF, CNN?!” on a semi-regular basis.

We added Fark (Kentucky, USA) to the dropdown of news websites so you can play the Is it CNN or Fark game to try and find the differences between their headlines. Fark appears pleased, as WTFCNN?! appeared on their frontpage, too. Now we just need CNN.com to join in…

Then there was a slew of blogs that also wrote up our ribbing of the self-proclaimed “Worldwide Leader in News.” Thanks to all of you who helped get the word out about this most recent breadpig project. There are more on the way!

Of course, Chromakode, the breadpig developer who built WTFCNN?! did a nice writeup on the geeky side of things. Breadpig is planning on open-sourcing this project.

And one website, Business Insider, got a bit confused by our newest feature addition, which lets you substitute CNN.com for any website by tweaking the URL.

e.g., http://wtfcnn.com/#http://foxnews.com|FOX

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Before retiring as reddit co-founder, Alexis Ohanian founded Breadpig in late 2008 as an uncorporation for creating (and selling) geeky things with the purpose of making the world suck less. It's recently expanded to report on all the ways people worldwide are creating & hacking to improve their lives. He's also an angel investor and thinks hummus is awesome. Follow him on twitter, click here.