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<p>On Thursday night, Yahoo Finance tweeted the worst <a href="http://www.someecards.com/news/politics/donald-trump-unpresidented-twitter-typo/">typo</a>. While we often use hyperbole as a device, this isn&#39;t a hyperbole. It really is <a href="http://www.someecards.com/news/politics/don-king-trump-n-word-reactions/">the worst.</a></p><p>Imagine a typo so bad it renders the tweet unreadable aloud for a chunk of the population.</p><p>This is that typo.</p><figure class="image"><div class="image-container"><img alt="" data-attribution="Twitter" data-attribution-url="" height="896" src="//cdn.someecards.com/posts/slack-imgscom-mPGSh8.jpeg" width="750" /></div><div class="image-attribution">Twitter</div></figure><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>It took awhile for them to fix their mistake, but when they did, they cried &quot;spelling error,&quot; rather than typo.</p><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">We deleted an earlier tweet due to a spelling error. We apologize for the mistake.</p>&mdash; Yahoo Finance (@YahooFinance) <a href="https://twitter.com/YahooFinance/status/817234871018024961?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 6, 2017</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>A spelling error is forgetting that it&#39;s &quot;I before E except after C,&quot; which still makes it the same word.</p><p>This is a different word.</p><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">It&#39;s a game of inches <a href="https://twitter.com/YahooFinance?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@YahooFinance</a> <a href="https://t.co/i1Gk2BeKAY">pic.twitter.com/i1Gk2BeKAY</a></p>&mdash; Jay Scott Smith (@JayScottSmith) <a href="https://twitter.com/JayScottSmith/status/817327618865430528?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 6, 2017</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>Our thoughts and prayers go out to Yahoo Finance&#39;s (now former) social media manager. Get extra drunk this weekend.</p><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

Yahoo Finance accidentally tweeted the N-word and it's bad. Real bad.

On Thursday night, Yahoo Finance tweeted the worst typo. While we often use hyperbole as a device, this isn&#39;t a hyperbole. It really is the worst.Imagine a typo so bad it renders the tweet unreadable aloud for a chunk of the population.This is that typo.TwitterIt took awhile for them to fix their mistake, but when they did, they cried &quot;spelling error,&quot; rather than typo.We deleted an earlier tweet due to a spelling error. We apologize for the mistake.&mdash; Yahoo Finance (@YahooFinance) January 6, 2017 A spelling error is forgetting that it&#39;s &quot;I before E except after C,&quot; which still makes it the same word.This is a different word.It&#39;s a game of inches @YahooFinance pic.twitter.com/i1Gk2BeKAY&mdash; Jay Scott Smith (@JayScottSmith) January 6, 2017 Our thoughts and prayers go out to Yahoo Finance&#39;s (now former) social media manager. Get extra drunk this weekend.

On Thursday night, Yahoo Finance tweeted the worst typo. While we often use hyperbole as a device, this isn&#39;t a hyperbole. It really is the worst.  Imagine a typo so bad it renders the tweet unreadable aloud for a chunk of the...