For the 2010 World Cup, you can watch the live matches with these 10 websites, you can follow the match standings with different Google services, and you can check out what the world are talking about the football game with Twitter.
To hug the 2010 World Cup, Twitter has become a footy-fan and made 3 big changes, including the World Cup portal page, the hashtag and the background theme.
I. Twitter World Cup Page
In order to make it easier to follow news among millions of messages about the football game, Twitter has launched a World Cup portal page, just as below:
1. Twitter Home Page
On the Twitter home page, there is a big World Cup 2010 button on the top right side.
2. World Cup Page
Clicking on the button, you will see the Twitter World Cup portal page, on the left column, there are top tweets which will be updated automatically, and on the right column, there are match schedules.
Clicking on every of the matches, you will see the match page as below:
3. World Cup Match Page
All the Twitter messages with the hashtags of the teams (such as #rsa or #southafrica for South Africa) will be automatically displayed on the related match page. Those messages will be split into 2 columns, one for a team, the other for the other team.
4. World Cup Team Page
Clicking one team on the top of the match page, you will see a new page which only contains the messages of your team. For example, all the tweets with the hashtag #mex or #mexico will be automatically displayed on the Mexico team page.
II. World Cup Hashtag
The most popular hashtag for the 2010 World Cup on Twitter is #worldcup, behind which there will be a football icon in your twitter message.
Besides, if there are any team hashtag (such as #rsa) in your Twitter message, there will be a flag of that team’s country behind the hashtag.
III. World Cup Theme
Twitter has added a World Cup theme and you can use it for your profile’s background design.
Annotation: Abbreviations for the teams of the 2010 World Cup
Below are the abbreviations for the teams of the 2010 World Cup, you can refer to them for the hashtags:
Group A
South Africa: RSA
Mexico: MEX
Uruguay: URU
France: FRA
Group B
Argentina: ARG
Korea Republic: KOR
Nigeria: NGA
Greece: GRE
Group C
England: ENG
America: USA
Algeria: ALG
Slovenia: SVN
Group D
Germany: GER
Australia: AUS
Ghana: GHA
Serbia: SRB
Group E
Netherlands: NED
Japan: JPN
Cameroon: CMR
Denmark: DEN
Group F
Italy: ITA
New Zealand: NZL
Paraguay: PAR
Slovakia: SVK
Group G
Brazil: BRA
Korea DPR: PRK
Cote d’lvoire: CIV
Portugal: POR
Group H
Spain: ESP
Honduras: HON
Chile: CHI
Switzerland: SUI
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