Romney camp fixes "Amercia" iPhone app gaffe

Screenshot by Don Reisinger/CNET

UPDATED 2:15 p.m. ET

(CBS News) As kids from across America compete in the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Maryland, news emerged that Mitt Romney probably would not have made a good contender in the annual contest.

His campaign released an iPhone app Tuesday called "With Mitt" that shows 14 messages his supporters can superimpose on top of photos to be sent around to their friends or posted on social networks to show their allegiance to the presumptive Republican nominee for president.

In addition to "American Greatness" and "We're With Mitt," one of the slogans reads, "A Better Amercia."

The Twitterverse went nuts.

User Andrew Cove wrote that "some poor app designer is getting strapped in a cage on the top of a car and driven across country tonight. #amercia"

Romney campaign spokeswoman Andrea Saul told MSNBC Wednesday morning that "mistakes happen" and a new, corrected version would be fixed as soon as Apple approved the update.

It was fixed later Wednesday.

Alas, the Twitterverse had already found another piece of text that could have used a better copy editor.

"As president, Mitt will work to expand and enhance access and opportunities for Americans to hunt, shoot, and protect their families, homes and property, and he will fight the battle on all fronts to protect and promote the Second Amendment," read the text on the campaign website in the section on the candidate's views about gun rights.

[endurorob_5]

Really CBS? You use up sace to have a story about a typo? Very pathetic. And to those in the twitterverse that jumped all over this, IT IS A TYPO!

[bobnjersey]

[Really CBS? You use up sace to have a story about a typo? Very pathetic. ]
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the polish foreign minister is even demanding that romney do something more about this.

[Jaylah54100]

Wow, that's just funny.

[Dweebler]

Hilarious parody of the Mitt Romney App: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-z6jNZsENWk

[Yankee_Doodle]

If the worst that pundits can find are transposed letters in a word, they should vote for Romney.

[bobnjersey]

[f the worst that pundits can find are transposed letters in a word, they should vote for Romney.]
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everyone will vote for him if he can show how to make $20 million a year and only pay 14% in taxes.

[MurdochSucks]

RMoney has its own tumblr: http://amerciaiswithmitt.tumblr.com/.

Hillarious!

[MurdochSucks]

He flubbed after a long night of campaigning and speaking. It wasn't really that funny, just a trip of the tongue. The "A Better Amercia" is really funny, because of the reaction all over the social net. They have come up with some pretty funny mockery of Mitt's attempt to connect with young voters. Get a sense of humor, DJ.

[MurdochSucks]

Mittbot 2.0 has a spelling glitch. Quick! Patch his source code before he is exposed - "unzipped."

[H_Ali_Tosis]

Come on guys! Mitt messed up just a bit, that's all. Who cares if it is America or Amercia or Amreeka?? Mitt loves them ALL. Just wait for his next blooper (of truth) when he portrays Mormons as Morons......just sayin'

[GypsyBoots5]

Really? The lamestream media are going with this non-story? You can see spelling and editing howlers every single day on the websites of all major news organizations that are supposed to have editors--including this one.

[whoreallycaresnotyou]

Its the same country that has the 57 states obama mentioned last election.

[bobnjersey]

[Its the same country that has the 57 states obama mentioned last election.]
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no ... but it is the same country that has 57 primaries leading up to a party nomination (states & territories).

[salajame]

For you troglodytes(cave men), the point of the article is not that Romney can't spell. It is that people all over the web are laughing and having fun with his app. Just Google amercia and look at the images. It is really very funny, if you still have your sense of humor.