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Facebook scores 1b interactions for World Cup

Tournament is set to break new records as biggest social media event to date

Published Tue, Jul 1, 2014 · 10:00 PM
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[SAO PAULO] With one billion posts, likes and comments in just the first half of the World Cup, the soccer tournament is already the most talked-about event in Facebook Inc's decade-long history, data obtained by Reuters showed.

The soccer conversation measured between June 12 and June 29 involved 220 million people and one billion interactions, the Facebook data showed. And since the ball will be rolling for another two weeks, the tournamen…

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