Yahoo accidentally tweeted a racist slur and Twitter had a field day
Just when we thought we had put the trials and tribulations of 2016 behind us, it seems 2017 is going to be just as troublesome.
Yahoo Finance is the butt of every joke on Twitter after accidently tweeting a racist slur.
The account tweeted out a story on President-elect Donald Trump's plans to expand America's navy and misspelled the word bigger with an 'n'.
It gained over 1,000 retweets before Yahoo Finance removed it and published an apology.
We deleted an earlier tweet due to a spelling error. We apologize for the mistake.
— Yahoo Finance (@YahooFinance) January 6, 2017
Unfortunately for Yahoo Finance, Twitter never sleeps and plenty of people are tweeting their two cents about the mishap.
That Yahoo Finance typo sent Black Twitter into a frenzy. #NiggerNavy is now trending. This is basically the Black History month pregame.
— NUFF (@nuffsaidny) January 6, 2017
Someone is about to get fired @YahooFinance pic.twitter.com/PltQsVLfEm
— ᥫ᭡ 🇵🇸 (@girlswithtoys) January 6, 2017
yo @YahooFinance idk what you have planned for black history month but please chill
— Desus MF Nice💯 (@desusnice) January 6, 2017
Man is the alt-right gonna be pissed when they realize that headline from Yahoo Finance was a typo
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) January 6, 2017
Yahoo Finance's social media correspondent tomorrow at work pic.twitter.com/Zu0PaG1Adx
— Mitch Broyles (@broylesmb) January 6, 2017
Black twitter 1, Yahoo Finance 0.
— Quincy Robinson (@_quincyrobinson) January 6, 2017
a what navy? pic.twitter.com/YLi8LJT0Cn
— 🇻🇨SPURS = Playoffs (@CrownNotNice) January 6, 2017
