Who hasn’t accidentally hit “send” on an email before giving it a final once-over, or posted something to social media that we wish we hadn’t? The good news is, for most of us, our measly 300 or so followers probably didn’t see that post. Even if they did, they wouldn’t care, nor would it have detrimental effects on your career.
But for social media managers and people who work in PR, an accidental “send” is a nightmare. As are social media campaigns that were ill-advised.
Here are some of the most egregious social media fails that could’ve been avoided if people just logged into the right account, double-checked their links, or had someone in the room to ask, “could there be any possible backlash to this?”
1
Air Force turns an act of war into a meme.
2
Microsoft Chat bot blunder.
3
No love for the motor city.
4
Wakanda Forever 21
5
What are you saying, IHOP.
6
Russia, not the Soviet Union.
7
Mickey D’s gets political.
8
The Onion gets too edgy.
9
Tinder should’ve just stayed quiet.
10
J.P. Morgan’s Q & A
11
“Blackfish” got people up in arms about SeaWorld.
12
HMV should’ve changed the social passwords.
13
Starbucks tries to get “woke.”
14
Ronaldo fans were not happy with Pepsi.
15
Challenger smoke.
16
Always check your links.
17
Delta’s giraffe conundrum.
18
The Queen is not dead. Long live the Queen.
19
Promoting the competition.
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LG tweets from an iPhone.
22
Alicia Keys does the same.
23
Razer’s rivalry with Apple.
24
Twitter’s CFO publicly tweets something he shouldn’t have.
25
Cinnabon tries to market Carrie Fisher’s death.
26
Entenmanns randomly uses hashtags.
27
Adidas’ poor word choice.
28
Patriots retweets a racist Twitter handle.
29
Arab Spring Sale!
30
The Seahawks using MLK quotes.
31
American Airlines auto-response bot fails.
32
This disgruntled StubHub employee.
33
No, KFC. Just, no.
Source : https://www.distractify.com/humor/2018/12/20/u18hC-8/brand-twitter-mistakes