Mistakes are bound to happen and they can happen to the best of us. But the most important lesson is to learn and improve from them. So, as we say hello to 2014, let us look at which brands make it to the list of 2013 Social Media Bloopers.

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5. Blooper..

6. Starbucks
India
Instagram
handle lifted
the tagline of
their
competitor
CCD
"A lot can
happen over
coffee"
Oh no Starbucks, what were you thinking while
completing your Instagram bio?.
Learning: Copying, whether from competition
or elsewhere isn’t a smart idea.
Photo courtesy: Flickr Creative Commons: Jon S

7. 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 

8. customer service

9. Dear VodafoneIN, are
you servicing your
customers for Wedding
Proposals as well? Or
perhaps, it’s a case of
going overboard with
automation.

10. stroke of

11. 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.

12. not timing your

13. 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 ?

14. 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.

15. the positive

16. Domino’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.

17. Domino’s
To top it all, Domino’s tried to jokingly cover up the
auto-response as an deliberate response.

18. bloopers

19. 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.

21. 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.

23. 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.

24. Outrageous

25. 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.

26. of the

27. 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.

28. blooper that we

29. 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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