Top 10 Hilarious Social Media Fails! 😂

Every brand has had some sort of online gaffe, check out the biggest fails from some of the biggest brands.

John Hunter
8 min readFeb 24, 2020
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It is every social media manager’s nightmare to be embroiled in a PR disaster and especially when it blows up on social media. Here I look at the top 10 funniest social media fails. There are loads more, if you would like to google them… what do you need to avoid to not make the same mistakes.

1. HMV’s staff revolution 💪

HMV staff mutiny on Twitter

Everyone remembers this one… it was one of the first social media disasters where the joke was on the business. Social media was a relatively new platform and at the beginning most companies didn’t know what to do. Rather than get a handle on it and employ professionals, they usually left the young recruits in charge. After all it was Facebook and just what they do on their own personal profiles??? Not the case as we all know now. Without proper governance and oversight, the social media team were allowed to barricade themselves in virtually and hold a protest at the company making mass terminations. The tweets got funnier and funnier using…

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John Hunter
John Hunter

Written by John Hunter

Director at Entrusted Content providing digital and social media content consultancy services. Creative geek, all views are my own (Geordie born).

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