This United Breaks Guitars Song by Dave Carroll goes to show how social media can truly hurt a business. This was an episode where Dave Carroll’s Taylor guitar  worth $3500 was broken by United Airlines and they refused to replace it. Dave Carroll then decided to put up a YouTube Video of United Breaks Guitars song this past year.

Once the United Breaks Guitars song hit YouTube it resulted in financial damage to United Airlines. Their stocks nearly dropped 20% over a simple guitar they could have replaced. If they broke it, fix it! Now this United Breaks Guitar Video on YouTube now has had over 6,354,616 views since it was uploaded on the Internet. In the first couple of days Dave Carroll’s song United Breaks Guitars hit over a million views.

Let this be known to businesses out there that social media can and will impact their business if people decide to take their story to the Internet. Whether it’s Facebook, YouTube, Twitter or MySpace depending on the person it might come back to bite you.

Dave Carrolls video song United Breaks Guitars on YouTube was all made in good fun but got his point across as well. From what Dave Carroll said in a statement that it wasn’t about the cost of replacement of his guitar more or less it was the moral fact of the matter. As he stated that he would like the money to go to a charity after United Airlines decided to compensate hin for the damage after months and months of nothing.

Watch the United Breaks Guitars Song and listen to the words. This song was amazingly put together, it will bring a smile to your face, laugh and at the same time a great message is being sent too. You’ll see what I mean go watch the United Breaks Guitars Video and enjoy!