SPORTS: SOME SOCIAL MEDIA FACTS ABOUT THE FIFA 2014 WORLD CUP:


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· Facebook estimated that 500 million of its 1.28 billion users are soccer fans, with 62 % of those using Facebook every day.
·Globally an estimated 3.6 billion viewers are tuning into the soccer action in Brazil and an estimated 70% of real-time World Cup fans are going online on their mobile phones, be it via WiFi or 3G connections.

·If each of the 3,6 billion viewers watched 10 games and spent 5 minutes tweeting per game, that would add up to a whopping 126 billion collective minutes spent looking at a second screen instead of the TV during the World Cup period.

·Up until the opening ceremony, the World Cup generated 19 million social mentions with an equivalent of 90% of the world contributing to these conversations. That’s more social mentions than during the whole of the 2010 World Cup.
 

·The opening match between Brazil and Croatia generated 12.2 million tweets, with people from 150 countries joining the conversation.

·The match on Saturday between Brazil and Chile broke twitter records at 16 million tweets generated during the game – that never would have been possible if people weren’t able to “second screen” from their couches.

·The top mentioned player in the opening game, Neymar Junior @NeymarJr, gained 165 000 Twitter followers on the day of the match.
·Twitter expected 350 000 tweets per day about the World Cup, with the UK and Ireland likely to be the top tweeting countries around the #WorldCup hashtag.
·Lionel Messi of Argentina, Wayne Rooney of England and Cristiano Ronaldo were the favourite players on Twitter at the start of the tournament.

·Uruguay striker Suarez is getting 5 272 Twitter mentions an hour, 75% of which are negative.

·Brazil is the team with the most social media followers.
·The top Twitter handle of the World Cup is @FifaWorldCup and the top hashtags are #WorldCup, #Brazil2014 and #Brazil.
·Shakira’s official 2014 World Cup hit “waka waka” received 92 million views on YouTube in two weeks and now sits at 192 million views.

Sources: Twitter Data, Facebook, YouTube, Offerpop, Adobe Digital


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