'Yeah, THAT'S gonna work': Secret Service wants a social media sarcasm detector

Finding sarcasm on social media is like finding a piece of hay in a haystack.

Apprently, the Secret Service is seeking sarcasm detecting software for social media that's compatible with Internet Explorer 8 #LOL #OkThen

— Jessica Gaylord (@jessica_gaylord) June 4, 2014

Maybe the Internet Explorer 8 requirement is a test to see if the bidding contractors can actually recognize sarcasm themselves?

But nobody's ever sarcastic on the internet! #sarcasm http://t.co/GLYLJwGABM

— ryan (@rywri1) June 4, 2014

https://twitter.com/FilmLadd/status/473984136000974848

Could they give it to some of my followers? MT @TheAtlantic: Secret Service is buying software that will detect sarcasm by Twitter users.

— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) June 3, 2014

https://twitter.com/BradThor/status/474253890171326464

Yeah, THAT'S gonna work. 😉 RT @Marketplace The Secret Service wants sarcasm detection technology. http://t.co/cSatHajOZs by @kairyssdal

— Lisa Gerstner (@LGers) June 4, 2014

Crap this is a weird day in surveillance news… http://t.co/RpjdM2ijrh

— Joseph Cota (@AntiFish03) June 4, 2014

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Secret Service sarcasm detector? How they'll weed out false positives on Twitter http://t.co/FH5KzmaTF9 pic.twitter.com/oQa88LLjF6

— Popular Mechanics (@PopMech) June 4, 2014

If the Secret Service wants to figure out a way to detect sarcasm, I hope they're scraping and analyzing all the responses to their story.

— Andrew Ba Tran (@abtran) June 4, 2014

Maybe they already have the software and the announcement is just part of the shakedown.