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With conversations around the world turning towards this summer’s activities in Brazil, Facebook, Twitter and Google have announced how they’ll be keeping fans up to date with all of the latest World Cup news. Facebook Facebook’s new Trending World Cup page. First, to Facebook. Their dedicated Trending
Argentina
With the 2014 World Cup less than a fortnight away, Twitter is edging closer to having a clean sweep of all 32 participating teams as part of its network. The latest converts are @Argentina [http://twitter.com/argentina], who signed up earlier today and became the 31st nation to join.
Sony
Sony have taken the move into social content curation ahead of this summer’s World Cup. Called One Stadium Live [http://football.sony.net/onestadiumlive/en/#/topics], the website takes content from Facebook, Twitter and Google+ and collects them under specific headlines. The project is the centrepiece of the brand’
statistics
Facebook has upped its game ahead of this year’s World Cup by sharing data in an attempt to get more marketers back to the network. With social media usage growing year on year, the upcoming tournament in Brazil is well on track to becoming the most social competition ever.
The World Cup 2014 promises to be the most socially enabled competition yet, with social media use at a peak and most of the world’s biggest players actively updating their own Twitter accounts. It’s also an exciting time for clubs and broadcasters, who appear to finally be embracing
Man Utd
In another watershed moment for Twitter, Manchester United used the platform to break the news of David Moyes’ sacking earlier today. It’s quite a bold move for a club that only actually launched its profile at the beginning of this season once previous incumbent Sir Alex Ferguson – who was
Mastercard
We love a good PR stunt here at The Online Rule, and is doesn’t get much better in rugby than a stunt involving kick a ball over what is described as London’s “biggest set of rugby posts”. The posts in question are none other than Tower Bridge, and
adidas
It’s pretty hard to be particularly innovative when designing home shirts for football clubs, especially when clubs such as Chelsea have the very basic requirement of ‘lots of blue’. Hence why you get the feeling most of the money has been spent on this lavish video narrated by Jose
adidas
We’ve covered the launch of the first Twitter account for a football before [https://theonlinerule.com/news/877-adidas-launch-twitter-account-for-new-world-cup-football/] , but now adidas have innovated again through their brazuca football – fitting it with HD cameras and giving it to some of the game’s highest profile stars. Dubbed ‘brazucam’, iteven has
Leyton Orient
At season ticket renewal time clubs are often on a sickening charm offensive. It’s also the time when you tend to hear the most about their plans for the future, with players and managers coming out and outlining how excited they are about the future of the club. Pretty
MLS
Usually when a player leaves a club that’s the end of their relationship – until the two sides meet, of course. But when Tottenham Hotspur favourite Jermaine Defoe left the club at the beginning of the year to join MLS side Toronto, they had a surprise in store for his
Newcastle United
It’s safe to say that, so far, Newcastle United’s Twitter presence has been pretty poor. Since its inception, the account has been used to peddle club merchandise and post some ill-timed Tweets [http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1943233-newcastle-uniteds-twitter-survey-on-deadline-day-gets-taken-over-by-angry-fans] that have been greeted with anger by a lot of fans.