With the World Cup in full swing, Twitter, being a truly global social network (by now, less than 50% of tweets are in English), has been adding in fun little tchotchkes into the stream including soccer balls when you tag tweets with #worldcup and flags when you use country hashtags. It’s a great way to keep things fresh – Google has been doing it for years for historical events and birthdays with their doodle.

Look for more of these little guys as the World Cup progresses. Also, users can “checkin” at the World Cup by tagging their tweets with specific stadiums. This is being rolled out globally, and it’ll be interesting to see how it plays with the geolocation services:

What do you think? Is it a matter of time before brands start paying for Twitter tchotchkes on their tags? Will #coke show a bottle of Coca-cola in the tweet? How about the specific geolocation of the tweet? What will the effect be on Foursquare and others?

Tags: geolocation, twitter, world cup

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