The tweet was deleted and Yahoo issued an apology shortly afterwards.
When you’re in the publishing business, whether online or print, typos are an occupational hazard; we know that here as well as anyone.
Despite extreme care and vigilance, however, one or two mistakes are likely to slip through the cracks every now and again and one can only hope that they are passed off as innocent mistakes.
Unfortunately for the Yahoo Finance account, that was never going to happen after a typo in a tweet about Donald Trump and the navy on Thursday night.
Yahoo Finance just took the biggest L of 2017 with this tweet and it's only January 6th pic.twitter.com/9C3G5BWZtZ
— Q. (@DarthLemon616) January 6, 2017
The tweet has since been deleted but it was up for approximately 20 minutes and attracted the response you’d expect; to provide some context, ‘n’ is right beside ‘b’ on your standard QWERTY keyboard.
Yahoo Finance trying to delete that tweet. pic.twitter.com/jACHpval9R
— C.Gary didn't fumble (@Cane303) January 6, 2017
It's gonna be a long night for the folks at Yahoo Finance for that 'Navy' tweet. pic.twitter.com/9Xj3YkZ2cz
— ForAmerica (@ForAmerica) January 6, 2017
Yahoo published the following tweet in apology shortly afterwards.
We deleted an earlier tweet due to a spelling error. We apologize for the mistake.
— Yahoo Finance (@YahooFinance) January 6, 2017
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