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  • Facebook and Twitter Ready for World Cup 2014

    Facebook and Twitter Ready for World Cup 2014

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    Its Football fever everywhere. Social network giants are also ready for this. Both facebook and twitter launched new features for World Cup.

    Facebook launches Trending World Cup hub

    Facebook just launched a hub for all football fans to keep them in touch with all the news and updates coming out of the World Cup in Brazil.

    Facebook World Cup hub will show the latest scores and highlights from the matches, there is also an interactive feed showing posts from friends, players and your favorite teams. There’s also a Facebook interactive map showing which players have the most fans and where they’re located around the world.

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    Following the beginning of the World Cup, users will also be able to easily share which matches they are watching during any game, simply by tapping the smiley icon when composing an update. , Facebook has also set up an ‘official’ page for Facebook Ref for the tournament.

    Twitter brings back hashflags for World Cup 2014

    Twiiter also brings back its hashflags feature which was last used for the 2010 World Cup. This option makes it easy to pledge support to your national side across twitter simply by entering a # followed by your three-letter country name or code (FRA, GER, BRA, etc.).

    Alongwith displaying the national flag, Twitter will be tallying the tweets containing ‘hashflags’ and unveiling “the World Cup of Tweets”. You can vote for your team, on twitter.

    You can also follow the #WorldCup and #WorldCup2014 hashtags too, which include tweets from players, coaches and teams, as well as people you follow.

    For new users, there’s now the option to select your team during the sign-up process, which then gives access to a number of custom headers and profile photos.

    Naturally, as one of the biggest sporting events in the calendar, the world’s leading social networking sites want their users to engage and follow updates from the tournament. Enjoy the Game.

  • First Verified! and now #hashtags Facebook ‘follows’ @twitter

    First Verified! and now #hashtags Facebook ‘follows’ @twitter

    Your nonsensical hashtagged status updates on Facebook will now, at last, have some meaning. The social network Facebook said hashtags will now be clickable and searchable, like they are on Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, and, well, basically every other social network.
    “Hashtags will be clickable on Facebook. When you click on a hashtag in Facebook, you’ll see a feed of what other people and pages are saying about that event or topic,” the company said in a statement.

    You can search for a hashtag in the search bar if you want to participate in a larger conversation—like when “Game of Thrones” is airing or a political scandal erupts. When you search for a hashtag, like #GoT, you can write a post directly in the feed that pops up in that search. The feed will showcase results from both people and pages.

    Facebook’s basic privacy policy applies to hashtagged status updates—if you have your posts set to friends-only, then only your friends will be able to see your updates, even with hashtags.

    If you are in the mood for some micro-inspirations, here’s one. Twitter no longer asks you to tweet “What are you doing?” (it has switched to “What’s happening?” for quite some time now) and when Facebook went for a redesign in August 2008 it added prominence to its status update feature and began asking users, “What are you doing right now?”. Note the similarity?

    It’s not that Twitter didn’t seek inspiration elsewhere. It did and continues to do. So does Google+. The problem with this feature aping is that the competing social networks are slowly becoming clones of one another, feature by feature. Soon there might be little to tell them apart from their brand names.