FIFA World Cup Helps Facebook, Twitter, Google Score

Facebook:  When it comes to football related updates, Facebook is not far behind as it has also created a World Cup related content. At the World Cup hub, visitors can see posts from their Facebook friends that relate to football, and also from the pages they follow. Apart from that, links from pages that publish football news are also displayed.

It has also included an interactive map that shows where posts for the top 10 players are coming from, across the globe. Neymar is the most popular footballer in Brazil, but Indian fans seem to be more interested in Ronaldo and Messi. A hub called Trending World Cup, which also includes scores and news from the matches and a feed of posts from teams and players. Your own friends' posts will show up in the hub too, which will be accessible straight from Facebook's News Feed.

Twitter: Twitterati has also got some good news related to world cup specific functions. They can start with "hashflags," enter a hashtag followed by a three letter country code and you can tweet the flag of the team you're supporting. But there's a lot more. For example, if you visit the hashtag #WorldCup then you can see not just all the tweets related to the tag, but also a live scoreboard, links to the various team handles, and the option to look at tweets, people or photos and videos. The hashtag also have links to custom timelines for individual matches, so that people can follow along on a match-by-match basis. The page also lists the Twitter accounts of top players, coaches and the official Fifa account.

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