Mitt Romney's new app is for a better 'AMERCIA' -- err, I mean 'America'

Gizmodo

The folks at Gizmodo managed to snag a screenshot of the misspelling in Mitt Romney's iPhone app before a correction was made.

By Rosa Golijan

The With Mitt iPhone app had just barely launched on Tuesday and it already had a popular Twitter hashtag. Mitt Romney's campaign staff would be ridiculously happy about these details?? if only it weren't for a pesky little typo.

With Mitt?is a simple app that lets you customize photos with Romney-themed slogans. You're basically supposed to show your support for the candidate by pasting things like "I'm a mom for Mitt" and "Obama isn't working" over your iPhone snapshots.

But as the folks at Gizmodo report, there was an unfortunate flaw with one of the slogans: America was spelled "Amercia."

Uh oh.

It didn't take the Romney campaign staff long to send?"Version 1.0.1" of the app???which is described as having some "bug fixes"?? to Apple, but the damage was already done. Twitter users went nuts, a new Tumblr blog was created, and plenty of media ridicule followed.

All of this because some poor fool somewhere forgot to spellcheck. Man, I better get this articel over to a copyeditor before a typo of mine brings down the Internet.

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With the GOP nomination now secured, Mitt Romney appeared at a Las Vegas fundraiser Tuesday evening alongside controversial real estate mogul Donald Trump, who renewed questions about President Obama's U.S. citizenship. NBC's Peter Alexander reports.

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