#WORLDCUP Twitter's first World Cup

I must say initially I was skeptical of the power of twitter, but the World Cup has made me a believer. You can follow players, managers and governing bodies like FIFA, as well as soccer fanatics across the world. I watched most games while on twitter viewing tweets from those I'm following and watching people battle it out for the country they're following. You get updates as fast as if you were watching the game itself, which is just brilliant. On a superficial level, you could even input little flags into your tweets and when you tweet #worldcup a soccer ball showed up. Very clever. Since the beginning of the World Cup, twitter trending topics have consistently included World Cup related items like players names and the elusive Vuvuzela. It even had my dad asking me what was Dave Fleet saying about the England team. Today, one day after the final, #worldcup is still a worldwide trending topic, where all things World Cup related have been monopolizing space. The greatest thing about twitter and soccer is that even though the World Cup is now over, twitter lives on and I fully intend to make use of it when the Premier League starts up again in August. I can't wait! Stay tuned for my thoughts on the best goal of the tournament.