Hey, social media marketers. Yes, you. Check your facts. Get another pair of eyes on tweets before you post them. Think about how people beyond your geographic target audience might react. Use a separate smartphone for brand tweets, to avoid posting personal updates to professional social accounts. And never, ever, forget: Social media is the land of trolls.
These are just a few of the lessons you can learn from the biggest social media mistakes of 2016 (thus far). Some of the following 10 missteps — including one from the U.S. Justice Department — are at least understandable. Others are, well … nothing short of stupefying.
