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People have always made sick jokes about bad events as soon as they happen. That's sorta the point. If you wait till everyone has forgotten, or everyone has already heard the joke, what's the point of making it?
In some ways I find jokes made a long time after an event are worse. Jokes made at the time are often a way of dealing with or handling a tragic, inexplicable event, or just a way to be 'shocking'.
People did make jokes about 9/11 when it happened, like every other tragedy or disaster, but 9/11 jokes now just seem to me to be redundant. There's no shock value involved, it doesn't figure in most people's mind any more, so all that's left is an empty, pointless insult to the people who died.
Tweeting, unlike telling or texting to a friend, just provides a bigger potential audience of unknown people, meaning more likelihood someone will get offended.
Ultimately, the biggest problem with this joke is that it lacks imagination.
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