From insensitive jokes about tragedies to confusing vegetables with flowers, we count
20 embarrassing Twitter fails.
20.
When working in the customer service industry, you need ideal customer service skills.
Whoever runs the Domino’s Pizza Twitter account has such skills, which is evident
in the response to a customer’s complaint about opening the pizza box and not finding
any toppings.
The representative responded with a heartfelt apology and an e-mail address for the customer
to properly file a complaint.
However, the customer replied later stating that he just opened his pizza box wrong!
19.
A girl tweeted the “thoughtful” gift her father brought home for her mother on Valentine’s
Day.
It turned out to be a vase full of asparagus, which her father mistook for daffodils.
At least they’ll have a healthy side dish for dinner, as long as they skip the hollandaise
sauce.
18.
Paris Hilton gave a warm farewell to Nelson Mandela when he passed away back in 2013.
She would always remember him for his inspiring speech, “I Have a Dream.”
Does Paris also think that Martin Luther King Jr. was the President of South Africa?
17.
Instead of tweeting to NBA Central, make sure to contact them via cell phone.
This is because they don’t have an account on Twitter!
It says so on their…
Twitter account.
Apparently, NBA Central didn’t quite grasp what Twitter was all about back in 2015.
Let’s hope they do now.
16.
When guys get hugged, the hugger is greeted with the fresh smell of a guy’s large intestine…
wait, what?
This tweet said, “When you hug a guy and smell his colon,” and included some emojies
after it.
Obviously, “cologne” was what the user meant, although with people today you never
know.
15.
This girl’s tweet that simply says that she wants her first daughter to be a girl
is something to think about.
Seriously, think about it… while we’re in our mother’s womb, we all start out as
females.
It just depends on whether there’s a Y chromosome in the embryo.
That determines whether we stay female or become male.
That concludes today’s biology lesson.
14.
Some people don’t keep up with current events, like what is happening overseas or even in
their own country.
This user apparently doesn’t know something that most people do – the name of the President
of the United States.
When she asked what Obama’s last name was, this user didn’t realize she had already
answered her own question!
13.
Taco Bell evidently enjoys interacting with their customers, even if it’s to playfully
respond to a somewhat sarcastic remark about their products.
When a man tweeted that he wasn’t too impressed that Taco Bell came up with the idea of putting
nachos in a burrito because – according to him – drunk people do it all the time,
Taco Bell responded with…
“Where do you think we got the idea?”
12.
Most customer service-oriented businesses have the mantra of “the customer is always
right”, even if they’re wrong.
It must not be the policy of mobile phone provider O2.
When a customer sent them a tweet complaining that he never got a reply text from a girl
that he texted 246 times, the company replied with, “Hi James, that’s a lot of texts!
Maybe next time you should try sending one text to 246 different girls…”
Not sure if they just lost a customer for that one.
Despite its unprofessionalism, it’s still amusing… and true.
11.
British musician Rita Ora keeps up with her fans on Twitter, although this tweet of hers
suggests that not all of her followers are fans.
Devoted fans, that is.
Rita said that if her tweet receives 100,000 retweets, she would release her new song that
Monday.
Well, if you look at the number of retweets plus a reply from one of her fans, you’ll
see that her new song probably wasn’t released that Monday.
So much for her “devoted” fans.
10.
The first case of an American contracting Ebola made headlines back in 2014, but apparently
this Twitter user didn’t read any of them.
He literally thought “Ebola” was the Spanish word for “grandma”.
But it’s okay, every now and then people mistake the name of a beloved relative with
a deadly disease.
9.
Taco Bell appears once again on this list, only this time they faced off with another
company, Old Spice.
One day they decided to have a little conversation.
Old Spice asked in their tweet, “Why is it that ‘fire sauce’ isn’t made with
any real fire?
Seems like false advertising.”
Taco Bell couldn’t help but reply to the tweet by asking, “Is your deodorant made
with real old spices?”
While the quick exchange was entertaining, probably still not the most professional thing
to do when trying to keep customers and find new ones.
8.
Please tell us he’s a diabetic and is giving himself an insulin injection.
Well no need to worry as this tweet, unlike the rest on this list, was the work of a hacker
who had actually hacked into Burger King’s account and changed their logo to that of
McDonald’s.
The hacker went on to post a picture of a man shooting up heroin, claiming it was an
employee.
7.
There aren’t any words to describe this one, other than the user contradicted himself
in his tweet.
At least he gave the definition of “suicide” when he tweeted…
“I’ll rather kill myself than commit suicide.”
At least this user feels strongly about not committing suicide.
If only he could feel as strongly about using proper grammar…
6.
Family titles can be confusing to some people, such as “second cousin twice removed”.
They seem to get more confusing with larger families, but the situation in this tweet
shouldn’t be so confusing.
“My sister is pregnant.
I can’t wait to see if ima be a auntie or uncle” was what was tweeted by this particular
user.
A few emojies were added but didn’t hide this Twitter fail at all.
5.
Many – if not all – of the fails on this list may be facepalm-worthy, but not as much
as this one.
It almost seems like a joke.
The user tweeted, “Why do the women never have to take a DNA test to see if it’s theirs?”
You can probably tell whether a person has read this tweet or not by seeing their handprint
on their face.
4.
It’s hard to know if this tweet was the result of the autocorrect feature having a
mind of its own, or if the user actually thought this was how “lactose intolerant” was
written.
“How do you know if you’re lack toast and tolerant or not?” isn’t in itself
a bad question.
If you don’t have bloating or cramps after eating dairy products, then you don’t.
3.
The Eiffel Tower is one of the most popular tourist destinations.
Many people flock to the Paris attraction each year… then there are some who would
like to one day, such as this unnamed Tweeter.
He tweeted…
“I wanna visit the iFold tower in France one day.”
Simple tweet, but the user sounded as if he confused the Paris attraction to either the
location in England, or the portable laptop stand.
2.
The senior director of corporate communications at a public relations firm, Justine Sacco,
was on her way to South Africa to visit family when she tweeted, “Going to Africa.
Hope I don’t get AIDS.
Just kidding.
I’m white.”
Sacco’s tweet caused quite a stir on Twitter.
It was so bad that she ended up getting fired because her employer, IAC, read it as well
and found it very offensive.
Despite an apology, Sacco continued to receive hateful messages.
1.
Actor and comedian Gilbert Gottfried wrote a series of insensitive tweets in 2011 that
joked about the tsunami that had hit Japan that same year.
Some of his tweets included…
“I just split up with my girlfriend, but like the Japanese say, “They’ll be another
one floating by any minute now.”
“My Japanese doctor advised me to stay healthy.
I need 50 million gallons of water a day.”
“Japan is really advanced.
They don’t go to the beach.
The beach comes to them.”
Gottfried, who was the voice of the Aflac duck in the commercials, apologized for his
tweets but not before the insurance company fired him from the gig.
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