Have you been watching any of this? With no England featuring it hasn’t been that high priority in the UK as the hacking scandal runs its course, but the Women’s World Cup Final has been big news elsewhere.
It grabbed four of the ten Twitter Top Trends, including players Alex Morgan and Abby Wambach (left) and has according to Twitter managed to break new Twitter records. Read More
Twitter has release a couple of nice data visualisation videos showing how during major events, like the the World Cup the royal wedding and the March 11 earthquake in Japan, people use Twitter to share news and how that virally spreads across the globe through retweets, @replies and Direct Messages. Read More
An email has emerged from the BBC to its staff following England’s World Cup bid elimination in the first round yesterday as Russia went on to secure victory, telling staff not to solicit comment on social media.
Facebook has launched a useful guide to help media groups and blogs get the best out of Facebook by making their content more social media friendly and more shareable.
A lot of this is about how organisations use Facebook’s “like” button, but other stuff looks at timing, dedicated pages and live streaming. Read More
The 2010 World Cup. Brings to mind the gathered hopes of the nation, the inevitable near-misses, the good performances and the bad, and a whole lot of shoulda, woulda, coulda.
….And Paul the psychic octopus.
UPDATE -The Football Association is officially not commenting on the news that Facebook could be set to takeover as sponsor of England, but comments coming out of Facebook make it clear that it probably isn’t going to happen. Read More
You either hate them or hate them, right? Maybe you like them, but I don’t know why. We’ve already seen them on as iPhone apps, but now YouTube has added a Vuvuzela to its videos. They’re having a laugh aren’t they? Read More
This will excite a lot of people who not only like to tell their Twitter followers what they’re doing, but where they’re doing it – the social networking site has launched a one-click-and-here-I-am function called Twitter Places, which comes with Foursquare and Gowalla integration. Read More
Anyone following England footballers on Twitter won’t be reading any interesting tweets from players at the World Cup thanks to a social networking moratorium imposed on international teams. Read More
We’ve all seen the New York Post’s “USA wins” headline and while at home in England and abroad we have been laughing at the Americans and how they don’t get football (soccer) there is an older story behind the headline. Read More
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