Filed under: Summer Fun, Web, Social Networking
While most of us have been spending our evenings watching Glen “Big Baby” Davis slobber all over the NBA Finals, the rest of mankind, for whatever reason, is caught up in something called the ‘World Cup.’ From what we’ve heard, it’s some sort of grandiose international event where people from historically war-torn nations find new excuses to burn the cars of their former colonizers, drunk hooligans develop groundbreaking racial slurs and countless sports anchors find new and inventive ways to use the word “globalization.” It’s a lot like the Olympics — only more boring, because we never win. [Ed. Note: We call BS on you, Amar. You live in France, and you clearly love soccer.]
The good people at Twitter, though, are apparently so stricken with football soccer fever, they’ve decided to launch a new page entirely devoted to the “World’s Most Boring Game.” As Wired reports, the new platform features news and tweets from each of the 32 nations contending for the Cup, as well as a “What’s Happening” bar that provides real-time updates of matches in progress. The site also launched a special World Cup Suggested Accounts List and a Top Tweets account that collects tweets from some 150 players, journalists and soccer organizations. Instead of hashtags, users can now mark their tweets with “hashflags,” meaning if you make a comment about Brazil’s, um, formation (?), and if you follow it with a ‘#bra’ tag, a little Brazilian flag will show up next to your tweet.
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