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"With the World Cup just days away from kicking off, Facebook and Twitter are both taking steps to serve as the platform for conversation and news about the games.\nFacebook launched a new Trending World Cup page on Tuesday that aims to serve as a central hub to \"experience the action in real-time.\" The page will include scores and highlights from the various games as well as updates from friends, players and teams. \nSee also: Six Apps to Fuel Your World Cup Fever\n\nImage:  FacebookAt the same time, Twitter introduced a Match timeline and World Cup timeline to make it easier for users to keep up with tweets related to the games and updates from the matches. Twitter is also bringing back hashflags, a feature first introduced in 2010. \n\nFacebook has been working to compete with Twitter on the real-time front for years. Facebook has scale in its favor \u2014 there are some 500 million soccer fans on the social network \u2014 but Twitter, of course, was built on real-time conversation.\nLet the social media games begin. \nHave something to add to this story? Share it in the comments."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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