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Social
Media
Bloopers
2013Photo courtesy: Flickr Creative Commons: Jon S
Bloopers: They can happen to the best of
usThey just happen, idea is to learn from them & avoid them in future!
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Let’s see which brands got it wrong and made it to the unwanted list of 2013 Social Media Bloopers.
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Those who got it wrong!
Freshly brewedBlooper..
Starbucks
Oh no Starbucks, what were you thinking while completing your Instagram bio?. Learning: Copying, whether from competition or elsewhere isn’t a smart idea.
Starbucks India
Instagram handle
lifted the tagline of
their competito
r CCD "A lot can
happen over
coffee"Photo courtesy: Flickr Creative Commons: Jon S
Starbucks
After the “Instagram” starter in India, here’s the main course from the “Hong Kong” outlet.
The picture says it all as this is how the staff member spelt “Virginia”.
Arranging a training on spelling lessons for staff members might help
“The case of
automation”
customer service
Vodafone
Dear VodafoneIN, are you servicing your customers for Wedding Proposals as well? Or perhaps, it’s a case of going overboard with automation.
“The master
Hack glitch”
stroke of
BCCI Personalized autograph is cool, but how about
this? These pictures were
tweeted from the official BCCI Twitter account.
While the twitter-app by BCCI received a lot of love, this hack-glitch might have spoilt the
party a little bit.
“The case of
shot perfectly”
not timing your
J.P. Morgan
J.P. Morgan announced a Q & A with their Chairman and asked folks to
tweet using the hashtag #AskJPM.
So what did the Twitterati Ask ?
The hashtag soon turned out into a nightmare of sorts as there was a storm of
abusive tweets forcing J.P. Morgan to call off the Q & A.
Prepare for
surprises of life.
the positive
Dom
ino’s
Positive feedback from your customers is priceless and you won’t want to miss on that. But certainly not the way Domino’s did it. A customer posted a compliment about Domino’s on its Facebook page and Domino’s responded with an apology.
Dom
ino’s
To top it all, Domino’s tried to jokingly cover up the auto-response as an deliberate response.
Are all
bad?
bloopers
Burger King
The Bad: Hackers changed the fast food company “Burger King” name to
"McDonalds“ and sent an array of questions &
offensive tweets.
The Good: What comes as a shock is that the account
added 5,000 new followers in the first 30
minutes since the hackers took over.
The
Tweet that
F**ked
Nokia NZ
The abusive tweet made by Nokia NZ led to a negative twitter storm, which was
quickly followed by an apology.
Mystery is on! Whether company's account was
hacked, whether the tweet was sent from a disgruntled employee, or it was actually
an error.
“The
One”
Cheesy
Taco Bell
An employee posted a photo on their personal
Facebook page of another employee licking
a stack of taco shells, soon the photo received a storm of undesirable
comments. The employees involved were
fired.
“The
one”
Outrageous
Spagethios
SpagethiOs Pearl Harbor tweet was certainly not a favorable one, People were immediately outraged and tweeted their reaction to SpaghettiOs.
May be the brand didn’t remember that more than 2,400 Americans were killed and almost 1,200 others wounded during attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
“The Doosra
Picture puzzle.”
of the
Cricket Australia
Cricket Australia tweeted an undesirable picture regarding England spinner Monty Panesar. The post drew a number of negative responses thereafter & an explanation was demanded by England.
CA finally moved quickly to remove the offending item and apologize.
& finally, the
all know of…
blooper that we
Star Sports
The abusive tweet that was posted on 05 November 2013, received 104 retweets, 25 favorites and numerous screenshots.
While the Twitter blooper occurred at around 6 PM the brand’s acknowledgement message came at 10 PM only.
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