Social media can be a great source of entertainment, information and keeping in contact with those that are labelled as ‘friends’ or ‘followers’ depending on the networks that are used.
In fact, perhaps social media has not been more important than ever most recently with the current lockdown imposed by most governing bodies around the world as users have taken to the sites even more than they would normally do so to try and avoid boredom or even having to talk to those within their household more than they would like to or normally do.
However, whilst these methods of communication and entertainment can be brilliant for the vast majority of people that use them, they can be like a double-edged sword for some that use them and make life a little more difficult as they can be remembered for all the wrong reasons.
All you have to do is look back at this week on Twitter and see football in America slip up and be made to pay for it. The worst thing, it was not just once, either. Two separate moments on the site from two different entities made a number of people take note and would have likely got plenty more engagement than they might, perhaps, normally have.
Step forward, FC Cincinnati and MLS’ official Twitter account.
Firstly, FC Cincinnati hit the headlines for their announcement of a new manager, although it took the world of social media by storm for all the wrong reasons.
The Ohio-based outfit revealed that Jaap Stam had been confirmed as their new manager and celebrated the appointment with the usual Twitter post with a picture of him. However, that was the problem, it was not a picture of Stam, it was an image of Ajax youth coach Tinus van Teunenbroek instead.
Twitter users were quick to flood the replies to inform the American outfit that it was not the former Manchester United legend and also created a number of memes that they shared with a number of other famous bald celebrities to mock the club.
After a couple of hours, the club noticed and deleted the post and uploading a new one acknowledging their mistake and sharing an actual picture of Stam. Thing is, that might not actually matter, as the club have had five managers since being founded less than two years ago. It’s not looking good, Jaap.
As mentioned, that was not the only shocker football in America took over the last week, though, when it comes down to social media fails.
It’s called soccer.
If anyone disagrees, reply to this. 👇
— Major League Soccer (@MLS) May 21, 2020
The MLS tweeted out a tweet, using one of the new features that has been implemented recently regarding only people who have been ‘@’ that can reply, stating that ‘it’s called Soccer. If anyone disagrees, reply to this.’ Thing is, someone did, via a quoted re-tweet, and pointed out to them that 10 of their teams had ‘FC’ in their name. Oops.
10 of your teams have "FC" in their name https://t.co/QfRIm1S3bA
— Dustyn Richardson (@DustynRichardsn) May 21, 2020
Maybe, the two worked together and created a rouse to get us all involved and keen to witness the MLS when it does return? Should it be of interest, of course, an online betting portal online-betting.org can help you to find some of the best offers sportsbooks offer punters.
Or, maybe things just backfired for the duo? The latter is probably the answer, although it is hard to deny there could be a huge pay-off from it.
