Posts Tagged ‘World Cup’

CNN‘s South Africa 2010: Twitter Buzz received an award in the category of Innovative News at the United Kingdom’s Royal Television Society Awards.

South Africa 2010: Twitter Buzz enabled fans following FIFA World Cup 2010 South Africa to monitor and visualize Twitter activity, providing an interactive visualization of how many Tweets per minute each topic generated, as well as photos representing soccer topics generating the most buzz, which changed sizes as the number of related Tweets fluctuated. Categories included players, teams, and topics, and fans were able to browse back through an archive of Tweets from the past 24 hours.

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Qatar 2022, which is attempting to bring the FIFA World Cup to the Middle East for the first time ever, is getting a big kick from Facebook, as its page on the social network has drawn more than 500,000 fans.

The host nations for the 2018 and 2022 soccer tournaments will be announced Wednesday.

Qatar 2022 said its Facebook page has received Likes from countries including Egypt (90,000), Jordan (45,000), Saudi Arabia (38,000), Qatar (31,000), Lebanon (23,000), Nigeria (22,000), Palestine (18,000), Ghana (17,000), the United States (14,000), Kenya (14,000), Israel (10,000), and South Africa (6,000).

The organization added that U.S. English was the most common language used to access its Facebook page, at 265,000, followed by Arabic (113,000), U.K. English (60,000), and French (20,000).

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Go USA Bid brought out the big guns in its efforts to rally support for the United States as the host country for FIFA World Cup 2018 or 2022, releasing a video narrated by Morgan Freeman and featuring Spike Lee, Bill Clinton, and Mia Hamm.

The video is aimed at bolstering support for the USA Bid Committee, as winning locations will be announced Dec. 2. The celebrities are joined by “a celebration of fans and players from across the country expressing and displaying their passion for the game,” according to Go USA Bid.

Freeman wrote in an email to supporters:

I am proud to lend my voice to this remarkable effort to bring the FIFA World Cup to the United States. Soccer is the world’s game, its beauty and simplicity embraced by people in every corner of the globe. I have seen the game’s power to bring people together, to stoke their passion, to realize their dreams. Together, we are living the power of soccer.

The World Cup is officially over, but don’t let the Post-FIFA Depression get to you just yet – all of your favorite 2010 World Cup moments will live on forever in a little place called YouTube. We’ve compiled a list of our top 10 favorite World Cup moments on YouTube. Check out the videos after the jump. Gooooal!!
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The Access Point just released a pretty cool infographic that compares Twitter and Blog traffic between LeBron James – who decided yesterday on ESPN that he would move to the Miami Heat last night  – and the FIFA World Cup, which is about to enter into its final game this weekend.  The international coverage of the World Cup is staggering, and trumps LeBron’s decision by an order of 10 to 1 when it comes to blog posts.  There are some interesting statistics on the image, so take a look after the jump.

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The Vuvuzela, the traditional South African football cheering horn and producer of possibly the most annoying sound in the world, is taking YouTube by storm. Not only was the video site inspired to add a Vuvuzela button to it’s video player, droning out the video sound, but the site’s charts are also filling up with popular Vuvuzela clips. We’ve compiled the top 10 Vuvuzela clips here for your viewing pleasure, so grab your earplugs and get ready to experience the World Cup, Vuvuzela style!
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Want to show your love for Germany this World Cup? Or broadcast to the whole world your support of England? If you’re a Canadian, you’re in luck – the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) is letting Canadian soccer fans across the country chime in with their team of choice via Twitter, SMS, or Facebook. This information is aggregated into the Pulse of the Nation infographic that shows the most popular teams across Canada and province-by-province. Interested in seeing which team made it to the top of Canadians’ lists? Read on to find out.
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Photos and video of the FIFA World Cup are essential; but connecting with die-hard fans online is another way to share in the exciting competition. There are a number of online communities and social networking platforms just waiting for your comments, cheers, and sneers. Through these social-media playpens, the world can connect around the World Cup on a new level. Read more

Soccer fans and patriots around the globe have been gearing up for the FIFA World Cup for months now, but since the games began it looks like one of the true winners is ESPN3. ESPN3, ESPNÂ’s broadband network for the live streaming of sports games, has seen a huge increase in traffic since the 2010 World Cup games began. ESPN3 had a whopping 1.7 million viewers in the first 4 days of the World Cup games alone.
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The FIFA World Cup is finally here and nobody is celebrating harder than Budweiser, who has put together an original web series for the event called ‘Bud House’. 32 fans from 32 countries are living in the ‘Bud House’ in South Africa, eating together, sleeping together and watching all the games together. As teams are eliminated from the World Cup, fans are eliminated from the house. The last standing fan will present the Man of the Match trophy to the final team’s MVP after the last game of the World Cup.
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