Our World Cup 2010 Channel continues to bring in the latest and greatest on World Cup news from Twitter. We have had a great mix of content from official score reportings being tweeted straight after the match is over, to some fantastic World Cup viral gems.

A big shout to our channel sponsor AT&T who have done a fair share of work making this channel what it is today. Be sure to check out their featured tweets and ‘Cup Buzz’ to get more World Cup 2010 news.

Here is a top 10 of the most popular World Cup tweets in the past 7 days

10. Australia-Serbia – The matches of 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa
9. World Cuo 2010: Nicolas Anelka misses France training
8.  World Cup instant Twitter replay: how we did it
7. Capello ‘to quit if England fail to reach last 16
6. FIFA may sit Slovenia-U.S. referee
5. The Best Website Designs of the 2010 World Cup
4. 2010 World Cup: South African man killed by wife, kids for changing TV to Germany
3. Top 10 World Cup Twitter Trends [CHART]
2. Algeria star slaps female reporter
1. USA vs Algeria World Cup Match Could Set New Internet Traffic Record

By the way is anyone else impressed by John Terry’s commitment by diving, face first, in a true fish like move to save England from a slovenian shot?

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The TweetMeme Wiki is now live for those of you who would like to help translate the TweetMeme plug-in to other languages. It doesn’t matter how big or small the contribution is, we appreciate it all. We hope to have completed full translations for as many different languages as you the community provide very soon.

You can find the wiki at: tweetmeme.wikispaces.com

Editing privileges is available to members of the wiki only, so a quick sign-up on the site will allow you to start contributing there and then.

Current languages available to help translate:
Arabic, Bengali, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.

We are also open to languages not currently shown on the wiki, just edit away using the same template layout as our other languages.  If there are any translations that people feel need discussion please do this on the discussion section of the page where there is a discrepancy.

WordPress 3.0 has just been released with lots of new features! Don’t worry both our plugins have been tested and will work with WordPress 3.0. For more information on the plugins check out the Extend pages of WordPress.

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We are fast approaching a major milestone in Retweet Buttons and within weeks we will have passed being live on over 200,000 websites. In conjunction we have recently passed serving 500 million button impressions daily. To assist our continued growth we are today releasing a major update to the button to include international language support.

Two parts of the button have translation features,

Firstly the button itself and the pop-up you get when you click to do the retweet are now translated into 7 languages English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Japanese and Portuguese. We will then be putting up an area to crowd source the translations to other languages.

Secondly we have integrated Google Translate to automatically translate any stories you retweet into your own language. This automatically detects if translation is required and prompts you when it has made the change, it is a simple one-click to revert the translation if that is not what you desire.

The new language support is on top of an impressive feature set,

• The best user and publisher retweets experience
• URL Shortener Support (including BIT.LY Pro)
• Mobile Phone Support (iPhone, Android)
• Image Button – that allows the embedding into RSS + Emails
• Spaces – allows you to control how many white spaces you leave at the end of the tweet
• Hash Tag support

If you are website owner you can read all the technical details of the changes on our help page, if you want to install the button from scratch visit our installation page.

UPDATE

As some of you who already use our button with the language translation are already aware we initially released our translations as an opt out, due to the popular demand for an opt in process instead we have now swapped that around so you can now opt into your tweets being translated into your local language.

We’re pleased to announce that the TweetMeme Button Chrome Extension is now available for download from the Chrome Extensions website.

The extension allows you to take a little version of the TweetMeme Button with you everywhere on the web, showing live tweet counts for pages you are viewing, as well as providing quick tweeting of whatever you’re currently looking at.

Our standard Retweet Button is massively popular, and over half a billion of them are seen every day across a huge range of websites. But that doesn’t mean there will always be a retweet button at hand when you need one. So with the Chrome Extension, as soon as you discover the next hot article, blog post, picture or video, with just a few clicks you can have your customised tweet dispatched to your followers.

Help and support for the extension is available on our help forum.