Yahoo accidentally tweeted a racist slur and Twitter is dragging them
Spell check is really, really important.
Just when you thought The Washington Post Express won the award for the biggest mess-up of the month, Yahoo Finance came like a wrecking ball to crash the party.
While tweeting a link to a story on President-elect Donald Trump's plans to enlarge America's navy, Yahoo's financial service misspelled bigger with an "n."
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The racial slur gained more than 1,000 retweets before being deleted, almost one hour after it was shared.
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The account published an apology shortly after, saying it was a "mistake":
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As expected, people on Twitter had a lot to say about it.
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Mashable has reached out to Yahoo for comment.
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