Romney Campaign Spelling Gaffe Mars iPhone App Release
- May 30, 2012
It's the typo that has the Twitterverse buzzing.
Just as Mitt Romney scored the GOP presidential nomination last night, his campaign released an iPhone app called "With Mitt" — only to discover it had one major error. The free app lets users customize photos with Mitt-inspired frames and messages, then post the images directly to Facebook or Twitter, or email it to a friend. The email recipient receives a message saying "I'm with Mitt Romney in 2012. And here's a photo showing my support. Check it out!"
But there's just one problem. One of the 14 slogans you can add to your image reads: "A Better Amercia."
Yes, you read that correctly. Amercia.
The typo quickly went viral, inciting a wave of jokes on Twitter.
"Apparently Obama doesn't have anything to worry about. Romney is running to be the president of Amercia," tweeted @AmericanHumor.
"Turns out Obama is running uncontested as Romney shifts focus to be the president of 'Americia,'" tweeted @wesleyverhoeve.
"I don't know where #Amercia is but I fear it has a low literacy rate," quipped @asifintoronto.
Another Twitter user, @KatieHudkins pointed out that "While #Amercia does have a nice ring to it, Romney's developers of "his" app may want to begin looking for new jobs."
A Romney campaign spokeswoman reportedly told MSNBC that, simply, "mistakes happen." The campaign has submitted a corrected app to Apple, which has yet to approve the new error-free version.
As of Wednesday morning, the typo was still live. The app is available for free in the App Store.
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1 comment:
* "And this from the candidate that wants to do away with the Department of Education!?!"
* "I thought his app was called etch-a-sketch."
* "I say let Mittens be president of Amercia! Then he can take all the nutcases with him to his new country while the rest of us continue to live in AMERICA! It'll be a saner place."
* "Bet Mitt knows how to spell Switzerland and Cayman Islands."
* "OK, it's one thing when a human CANDIDATE makes gaffes; but when your apps starting following suit..."
* "Frankly, I think they should have ADDED a slogan: "Dyslexics for Ronmey"."
* "This guy doesn't know how to spell the name of our country and he wants to be president?"
* "The party of anti-intellectualism strikes again."
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