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Tweet For Your Team is a fun tool to monitor the intensity and mood of supporters' tweets during a World Cup 2010 game.
As tweets are coming in, you can see which teams' fans tweet more intensively.
The mood of the tweets if also analyzed on the fly: positive, neutral and negative tweets are marked with different colors and contribute torwards the value of the mood meter.
To cheer for - or against your team - either click on the "Cheer for..." or "Cheer against..." buttons under the teams or tweet a message containing the #worldcup tag on your team!
See a this short video on how the application works:
If you'd like to support your team, you can do this two ways:
Send a cheery message on Twitter that contain the #worldcup tag and the tag of the team you support (e.g. #ned, #bra, #uru, #gha, #arg, #ger, #par, #esp). Your tweet will appear in the application in real time adding to the overall intensity and mood!