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5 Biggest Social Media fails

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Mar 17, 2017, 15:04 IST

"S my D"

"S my D" — The 2016 MacBook Pro has a lot on line, yet the absence of a secure digital (SD) slot drove the competition at Razer to tweet something at the tech behemoth: "You call yourself Pro? S my D," read the message on the photograph of a SD card in the Razer Blade laptop.

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"Queen is Dead"

"Queen is Dead" — Last year, the BBC's Ahmen Khawaja out of Urdu tweeted that "Queen Elizabeth has died." But she was just in the hospital for a routine checkup

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Twitter

Twitter — Before the end of last year, the CFO of Twitter, Anthony Noto, accidentally sent out a public tweet that was supposed to be a direct message to someone. And it was about how he felt they had to purchase someone's company. Deemed an "M&A (mergers and acquisitions) bomb," at least it didn't reveal the acquisition target.

Porn

Porn — School football recruiting analyst Gerry Hamilton was attempting to write about a high school linebacker when he somehow threw in the URL for a leading porno site.

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Pepsi and Ronaldo

Pepsi and Ronaldo — The Swedish branch of Pepsi got in a bad position for running Facebook ads of Portugal's footballer super-star Cristiano Ronaldo's voodoo-doll-likeness in various painful poses. The Portuguese battled back by making a 100,000 strong anti-Pepsi amass in a single day.

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