The SUXORZ: the worst social media campaigns and practices of 2012

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Romney's web developers had trouble spelling the word “America.” Whoops.

An Applebee's waitress who posted a receipt with a note from a pastor complaining about the automatic gratuity added to the bill on the Internet was fired on Wednesday after the pastor complained to her manager. Reddit, Twitter and Facebook firestorm ensued.

During Hurricane Sandy, American Apparel offers 20% off to the New England states "bored during the storm."

With the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre permeating the news, @kmart and hundreds of toy-hungry tweeters dove into a #fab15toys twitterchat and toy giveaway.

Belvedere Vodka tweets an ad featuring a terrified woman being grabbed by a gleeful man with a catch phrase, "Unlike some people, Belvedere always goes down smoothly," implying she will be forced to perform oral sex. This obviously sparked outrage.

Burger King's official Twitter account got hacked -- and turned into a supposed McDonald's account.

Many Twitter users woke to see a promoted tweet atop their Trends box from Sprint and @OscarRoadTrip, promoting a phone giveaway and their Truly Unlimited data service, using the hashtag #Oscaring. Of course, there's another Oscar in the news ...

Pepsi Next is using Pinterest for a Super Bowl party kit contest; but the contest is unfortunately pretty boring.

Casey Movers sent a letter threatening legal action if blogger's wife doesn't remove a negative review on Yelp.

Chrysler ran a contest to promote their vehicles- the winning blogger would win a trip for four to NYC, plus an iPad 2 to give away to their readers. Unclear rules and mismanagement caused a blog/Twitter feud.

Protest starts when a consumer uploaded a photo to Facebook showing the company's Pesek Zman candy bars cost more than twice as much in Israel as they do in New Jersey.

Samsung flew bloggers halfway around the world, then threatened to leave them there.

Skittles' "Walrus" commercial includes a teen girl making out with a walrus.

"We're tweeting live from HR where we're all being fired! Exciting!!"

Microsoft's #DroidRage Twitter attack on Android is an example of a hashtag marketing campaign gone horribly wrong.

Richard The Cat - Home Depot wanted to take advantage of Tumblr's newly introduced Radar ad unit. They also heard that the kids love the memes. So they made their own cringeworthy image macro of a cantankerous cat hating on all things Christmas.

Condom maker Durex caused controversy in South Africa after a Twitter campaign of edgy sex jokes included a tweet that supported sexual abuse.

Friskies has a new app that lets you see yourself as a cat, and it's kind of creepy.

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Pick-of-the-litter golden retriever died in United's care, United mishandles fallout.

Cheezburger—the company behind LOLCats—lent its meme-based branding to Kia for an ad campaign, but Cheezburger fans don't find it very "funneh."

post advocating Memejacking.

The Girls HBO Tumblr encourages fan participation. Until you read the sidebar.