When technology goes wrong - Sports Edition

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This was also posted here, but many of you are non-sports ball fans, so you might have missed the laughs.

Long story short, a professional hockey team was about to hit 1 million Twitter followers so they automated some scripts to celebrate with their new followers. Things quickly went south.
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Needs to be a @HitlerDidNothingWrong in there.
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I think "Hitler" would have been caught. Looks like "H1tl3r" could have slipped by.
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