Top 10 social media disasters of 2017

With Donald Trump as tweeter-in-chief, how could it be anything but a vintage year?

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With brands and individuals alike increasingly living their personal and professional lives online, you’d be forgiven for thinking that we would all have pulled it together by now.

Au contraire, 2017 was rife with social media gaffes, from the luxury festival that only existed on Instagram to Dorothy Perkins using an inadvertent porn hashtag.

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