WORLD CUP: How Do Facebook Users Express Soccer And Goal, And In How Many Characters?
The Facebook Data Science Team continued to analyze 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil as the tournament’s round of 16 came to a close, examining how users in different countries refer to “soccer” and “goals,” as well as compiling a list of the 10 goals that have generated the most shared posts and comments about goals.
The Facebook Data Science Team continued to analyze 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil as the tournament’s round of 16 came to a close, examining how users in different countries refer to “soccer” and “goals,” as well as compiling a list of the 10 goals that have generated the most shared posts and comments about goals.
The five most common translations and spellings of soccer thus far during the tournament have been:
- Soccer
- Football
- Fútbol
- Futebol
- Futbol
For Facebook users who like to channel their inner soccer announcer and stretch out the word “goal,” as in, “goooooooooaaaaaaaaalllllllll,” the top five countries in terms of average character length have been:
- Venezuela (21.2
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