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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

Article Source: National Post

With this weekend’s G8 and G20 Summits almost upon us, we’ve created a new National Post Twitter feed called @g20updates. On it, we’re serving up all the latest news and analysis on this weekend’s summit in Huntsville and Toronto.

This feed will also feature live files from our staff on breaking developments, disruptions and more news from ground level once the summit itself kicks off on Friday.

Follow us now @g20updates and stay connected!

what's happening?

The micro-blogging social network Twitter has launched a New FIFA World Cup fan website. It allows you to connect with the players, teams and gets you the newest updates by joining the real-time tweets.

Characteristics:

• Show the real-time tweets.
• Top tweets
• Upcoming Matches
• Flags of all countries

Not only that, but have fun supporting your team by adding the flag of the country with each tweet. HOW?!! Type hashtags and the symbol. Example: If you are a fan of Spain type #ESP, Brasil #BRA, England #ENG and so on… Show your support and have fun tweeting!

Here is a screen shot of how the website looks like :

FIFA World Cup 2010

Tuesday February 16 is Shrove Tuesday (more popularly referred to as Pancake Day). The term “Happy Pancake Day” has shot to number 4 on Twitter’s list of trending topics.

People on Twitter are making sure others remember the day with a smorgasbord of tasty pancake-related tweets. They are using their 140 characters to post links to great pancake recipes or letting their followers know that they are having pancakes for breakfast.

“Windows Phone 7″ comes in at number 7 at 9:30 AM GMT. Microsoft showed off a preview of the latest version of its mobile phone operating system, Windows Phone Series 7 on February 15 at the GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

The OS is getting positive reviews on the tech blogs and those reviews are being reiterated on Twitter. “Windows Phone 7 looks so, so good. iPhone OS looks positively archaic next to Microsoft’s newest” wrote one user.

British Phonographic Industry’s annual pop music awards, also known as the BRIT Awards, are set to take place in London on February 16. The 2010 BRIT’s star-studded lineup will include performances from Robbie Williams, Cheryl Cole, Jay-Z and Lady GaGa.

Google Buzz has moved up Twitter’s trending topics list by one to number 6 while the hashtag “followtuesday” just scrapes in at number 10.

The top 10 most talked about topics on Twitter on February 16 at 9:30 AM GMT are:

1. #nowplaying (unchanged)
2. #domeafavor (new)
3. #cutthebullshit (new)
4. Happy Pancake Day (new)
5. Windows Phone 7 (new)
6. Google Buzz (+1)
7. #withyofatass (new)
8. Brits (new)
9. #makesmesomad (+1)
10. #followtuesday (new)

Article Source: The Independent

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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1. Download: Doodle Love Twitter Background
2. Login, goto Settings->Design->Change Background Image
3. Click browse, select image, click save changes
4. Goto “Change Design Colors” and enter the following
5. background: 000000
6. text: FF33AA
7. links: 000000
8. sidebar: FF88CC
9. sidebar border: FF88CC
10. Saves changes. Done!

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1. Download: Broken Heart Twitter Background
2. Login, goto Settings->Design->Change Background Image
3. Click browse, select image, click save changes
4. Goto “Change Design Colors” and enter the following
5. background: 65b0ab
6. text: 000000
7. links: 65b0ab
8. sidebar: a19f99
9. sidebar border: a19f99
10. Saves changes. Done!

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1. Download: Heart Cloud Twitter Background
2. Login, goto Settings->Design->Change Background Image
3. Click browse, select image, click save changes
4. Goto “Change Design Colors” and enter the following
5. background: e91043
6. text: 000000
7. links: e91043
8. sidebar: fefef6
9. sidebar border: fefef6
10. Saves changes. Done!

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1. Download: Valentines Day Hearts Twitter Background
2. Login, goto Settings->Design->Change Background Image
3. Click browse, select image, click save changes
4. Goto “Change Design Colors” and enter the following
5. background: CC0011
6. text: 990000
7. links: CC0011
8. sidebar: 000000
9. sidebar border: 000000
10. Saves changes. Done!

For more twitter backgrounds, click here.

Article Source: Eonline

MySpace was good—too good, in hindsight—to Tila Tequila. Twitter wasn’t. So earlier this morning, she quit.

Now how are we supposed to know when Tila’s claiming to be pregnant, calling out potential baby daddies, posting her cell phone number, adopting Haitian babies, announcing that she’s put herself on suicide watch, mourning the loss of her fiancée or otherwise exploiting her caps lock button?

“Fans are saying #TilaDontLeave I’m sorry but I have to go my loves,” read her last series of tweets. “A baby is on the way…..Deleting my page in 3, 2……..

“Andddddd 1……..#TilaDontLeave but I’m out! Had lots of fun with you all and Love you, miss you but maybe I’ll sign up again 1 day..bye”

True to her word (for maybe the first time ever), Tequila’s Twitter account has been shut down.

“I love you all and will miss you here on Twitter! We have had our fun times together, but my Time on Twitter has run it’s course! Deleting.”

Deleting, but in her own sweet time, as nine more tweets were posted before her final good-bye.

“GOODBYE TWITTER!!! I WILL MISS YOU ALL! ACTUALLY AFTER THIS TWEET I WILL GIVE YOU 15 MORE MINUTES THEN I WILL DELETE MY PAGE NOW!”

Still, should anyone out there be curious as to the goings-on in Tila’s life, she’s left her forwarding information—her official blog, Tila’s Hot Spot, on which she’s already posted two journal messages today.

And in case anyone wanted the inside track as to why Tequila shut down her Twitter account, here it is: “Cuz Piggy face Perez is on there and he’s so fat and ugly and I just felt disgusted being on the same community with him.”

The pot then referred to the kettle as a “waste of space” and announced plans to launch her own celebrity gossip blog—TilaTequilaOMG.com—in about three weeks’ time.

Apparently, there’s about to be a gap in the market.

“PIGGY PEREZ IS SO JEALOUS OF ME!…HE KNOWS THAT MY BLOG WILL BLOW HIS S—TY BLOG OUT OF THE WATER!!!

Last we checked, Perez was still publishing. And the Twitterverse was humming along without a certain someone.

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twitter goes RED to support AIDs day

Article Source: Examiner

Twitter has ditched its normal blue colors today, and gone red. As in, Product (Red), to support World AIDS Day. The main Twitter page has been changed to red, and Twitter has even made it possible for users to turn their tweets red. If you’re already signed on to Twitter, you’ll have to sign out to see the change to the main Twitter page.

Whenever a user includes the #red or #laceupsaveslives hashtag in their tweet, the service turns the text of that tweet red on the Twitter page. The effort is part of the Turn Red initiative, which is trying to help battle AIDS in Africa.

In addition to Twitter’s changes, @JoinRed is tweeting facts about AIDS regularly to raise awareness.