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Article Source: France24

Thousands of fans around the world filled the streets and tapped their keyboards to celebrate Spain’s dramatic World Cup victory over the Netherlands.

Canada

Not a maple flag in sight as red and yellow filled the streets of Canada’s major cities on Sunday following Spain’s overtime victory against Holland in the 2010 World Cup finals.  While celebrations were reported in many of Canada’s major cities, the most lively crowds were in Toronto where thousands of fans packed the city’s financial district to watch the match on huge video displays.

Nearby, along the popular College Street, the final whistle prompted hundreds of fans to rush to the streets to sing, dance and jump aboard any vehicle that passed.

Spanish football fans celebrate on Toronto’s College StreetFlickr user: wvs Celebrations in Toronto, CanadaFlickr user: wvs Fans in downtown Toronto erupt with joyFlickr user: wvs Spanish football fans celebrating in TorontoFlickr user: wvs World Cup fever among young and old alike in Toronto, CanadaFlickr user: wvs

United States

Football, or as it is known locally “soccer,” is not usually a cause for street celebrations in the United States but Sunday marked a dramatic exception as thousands of Spanish football fans turned out to celebrate across the country.  From New York to San Francisco, Americans turned their attention from the typical summer sports ritual of baseball to take in the World Cup finals.  In California, pubs such as “Mad Dog in the Fog” were packed with mid-day crowds cheering along the Spaniards.  Elswhere, thousands of fans gathered in the city’s government district to watch the match on huge TV screens.

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While across the country, in New York City, Spanish fans roared on what’s typically a calm Sunday afternoon on Columbus Circle along the city’s Upper Westside.

Celebrating Spain’s victory on New York’s Columbus CircleFlickr user: jmoranmoya Spanish football fans celebrate under New York’s massive skyscrapersFlickr user: jmoranmoya Joy in New York City following Spain’s World Cup victoryFlickr user: jmoranmoya The Spanish rises over New York’s Columbus CircleFlickr user: jmoranmoya Spanish football fans celebrate on the streets of New York CityFlickr user: jmoranmoya

Norway

In Scandinavia, huge crowds turned out under a late-night summer sunset to watch the Spanish victory. Thousands of fans watched the game in central Oslo on Sunday and burst into cheers following Spain’s overtime goal.

Twitter

Twitter #ESP

While many celebrated outdoors and in bars around the world, hundreds of thousands of other Spanish supporters rushed online to express their excitement about being the new World Cup champions. Social networking services like Facebook, You Tube, and most notably, Twitter were flooded with celebratory messages.

On Twitter, there are a number of lively discussions going on among users from around the world:

• Follow the main World Cup Twitter conversation at #worldcup
• Spanish fans are gathering at #ESP
• Dutch fans are gathering at #NED

The “forced follow” bug discovered on Twitter earlier this week gives us yet another way to gauge which Tweeters are the most popular.

For those who didn’t see the exploit, the bug allowed a user to force another Twitterer to follow his or her account, just by tweeting “accept [username]” (i.e. “accept HuffPostTech”).

Word of the glitch spread quickly over Twitter, and users rapidly began exploiting the bug to force others to follow them (although Twitter later undid any of the forced follows).

Data from the auto-follow glitch reveals whom users were most eager to have follow them and offers another way to measure who are the most popular people on Twitter.

Rowfeeder has compiled data to create a graphic showing which Twitter users received the most “accept” requests (see the chart here).

Check out the top 20 Tweeters who received the most “forced follows” in the list below.

Interestingly, @BarackObama got just a quarter of the requests @Oprah garnered, and was out-ranked by @JustinBieber, @LadyGaGa, and @PerezHilton, among others

1. @Oprah
2. @LadyGaGa
3. @JustinBieber
4. @ConanOBrien
5. @PerezHilton
6. @Aplusk [Ashton Kutcher]
7. @BillGates
8. @KimKardashian
9. @JoeJonas
10. @Ddlovato [Demetria Lovato]
11. @NickJonas
12. @PhillyD
13. @BarackObama
14. @BritneySpears
15. @JimCarrey
16. @SelenaGomez
17. @TaylorSwift13
18. @HugoGloss
19. @YelyahWilliams
20. @KevinJonas

Article Source: The Huffington Post

Article Source: nowpublic.com

Canada has won a gold medal with a 3-2 overtime win over the USA in Men’s Olympic Hockey. Sidney Crosby scored the game winner for Team Canada.

Hero

After the USA tied up the game with Zach Parise goal with 24 seconds left, the game was forced to overtime. Sidney Crosby, Canada’s captain, had been quiet all game long until he won gold for Canada on one shot in overtime.

The gold medal means Canada has broken the Olympic gold medal record in an Olympic Games with 14.

The buzz for this game was incredible as the friendly neighbours renew their rivalry for the second time of this Olympics tournament. Team USA walked away with a 5-3 win over the Canadians when they met early on in the tournament, a shocking win for a young team with few expectations.

Team Canada was questioned after the loss, with many saying the Canadians were a disappointment for Vancouver 2010. After 4 consecutive wins and a gold medal, the Canadians put those questions to rest.

.. the goal.. the highest record of GOLD medals..awesome

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Article Source: Reuters

TORONTO (Reuters) – For tech-savvy singles who are unlucky in love, shy or just looking for a new way to meet people, Flitter could be the answer.

Hundreds of singles attended the first Flitter parties across Canada last week in the latest dating game which is a play on words of the microblogging site Twitter and flirting.

Each guest wore a white sticker with a number and gazed closely at their iPhones and Blackberrys in a dimly lit room in Toronto, their thumbs tapping away at their mobile devices on Twitter.

They were Flittering and trying to catch the attention of other tweeters who were flying solo on the eve of Valentine’s Day.

“#129, you’re so fine, but #152, you’re hot too. Man oh man, what will #72 do?” tweeted one guest as the comment showed up on a giant projector screen set up inside the venue.

Will Lam, a 27-year old banking professional and Twitter fanatic, attended the event because he was interested in seeing how Flitter worked.

“I was just wondering how they would leverage Twitter and facilitate interaction between people,” said Lam, who found the tweeting to be awkward and distracting in his attempts to strike up conversations with women.

“I actually tweeted #19 was really cute, but I can’t even find her anymore,” he said.

But Halley Trusler, a 23-year old event co-ordinator who recently moved to Toronto, found Flittering to be a great way to meet people.

“It allows people who are a little more shy to put themselves out there,” she said.

Trusler received plenty of tweets offering to buy her drinks and revealed she may have someone in mind by the end of the night.

The tweeter can choose to sign off with his, or her, assigned number or send an anonymous message or compliment. The recipient can respond and meet the tweeter if interested, or just read the anonymous compliment and move on.

All senders must end the tweet with the word “Flitterme.”

Justin Parfitt, founder and CEO of Fastlife, the Canadian-based dating service provider, originated Flitter singles events in Australia and introduced them to North America.

He thought there must be some way of getting people to interact using work devices, such as their Blackberrys or iPhones, to make people feel social as oppose to anti-social.

The Flitter parties, which were also held in Vancouver, Ottawa and Montreal, were advertised on the Internet.

Canada’s Alex Bilodeau won the men’s moguls freestyle skiing title on Sunday, claiming the host nation’s first gold medal of the Games — and he became an instant worldwide sensation on Twitter.

Bilodeau scored 26.75 points with defending champion Dale Begg-Smith of Australia on 26.58. Bryon Wilson of the United States won the bronze with 26.08 points.

Reaction from around the world was instant, with Bilodeau’s name becoming the Number 2 top trending item on Twitter.

Bilodeau wowed the crowd at Cypress Mountain.

Quebec’s Vincent Marquis finished fourth in the mogul’s final while Pierre-Alexandre Rousseau from Drummondville, Que., finished fifth. Maxime Gingras from St-Hippolyte, Que., placed 11th.

Canadian Alex Bilodeau raced to the gold medal in the men’s moguls final Sunday at Cypress Mountain.

“The party is just starting for Canada,” said Bilodeau, who dedicated his triumph to his older brother who has cerebral palsy. “My brother is my inspiration.

“This is too good to be true.”

Speaking of his run, he said: Everything was perfect. I just let it happen. I just let it go.”

Here’s a sample of the praise on Twitter:

@0utmind: Alexandre Bilodeau — GOLD! What a run. Absolutely incredible, beautiful. Dale Begg-Smith was amazing as ever and hard to beat. Congrats!!

@jeffjantzi: I just about lose it everyime they show Alexandre Bilodeau & brother Frederic celebrating… wow, what a story! Go Canada!!

@JGab12: We have a lot of great athletes here in Québec and Alex Bilodeau is one of them. Thanks for this incredible and historical moment!!!

@lovewillie: Alexandre Bilodeau's gold takes a lot of weight and pressure off the Canadian athletes and now

Article Source: The Vancouver Sun

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