Twitter is the first social network to show its support towards the 2010 Fifa World Cup in South Africa by silently adding a South Africa 2010 theme for users to use on their profiles.

The World Cup soccer tournament is literally a day away from kickoff and to celebrate this Twitter quietly added the new special design to its list of themes.

You can enable the theme for you Twitter profile by going to your settings -> design page and choosing the South Africa 2010 picture.

Also if you missed it check out Google’s latest changes that enables you to change your homepage background to whatever you’d like, how does a big SA flag sound? or perhaps a vuvuzela?

Great to see everybody getting in on the World Cup GEES.

In less than 47 days the 19th FIFA World Cup will be taking place here in South Africa. Preparing and keeping updated on this great event can be cumbersome but great news is that Android users have an application to make things a bit easier.

The FIFA World Cup is scheduled to take place between the 11th June 2010 and the 11th of July 2010, the 2010 FIFA World Cup marks the first time that the tournament will be hosted on the African continent where defending champions Italy will defend their title.

The 2010 FIFA World Cup application for Android provides users with the following functions:

• Countdown clock
• Game Schedule
• Group and Team statistics
• Head-to-head statistics
• Match reminders
• FIFA 2010 World Cup News
• View/Add match comments
• Real time match scores when the World Cup is underway.

The developer also has a score prediction game on the decks for when the FIFA World Cup is underway. Go to the Android market and Search for 2010 World Cup by Luke Shuan or simply scan the QR Code below that will take you to the application.

The official beginning of the 2010 soccer world cup kicks off this Friday (4 December 2009) with the Final Draw, being held at the Cape Town International Convention Centre. Before, during and after the group draw at 7pm, festivities will be held on Long Street in Cape Town, where more than 15 000 people are expected to celebrate with music and fanfare.

Please note that Long Street and the adjoining streets would be closed to traffic and transformed into a pedestrian zone from Wale Street to the Long Street baths for the day.

Local artists including Freshlyground, Jimmy Dludlu and TKZee are expected to entertain party-goers.

If you are free this weekend why not head on over to Long Street this Saturday and partake in the World Cup 2010 Draw festivities.

The 2010 Cape Town Greenpoint stadium is progressing nicely and nearing completion. Work on the stadium is being done around the clock to ensure that the stadium is completed on time and handed over to the City of Cape Town.

The stadium is expected to be finished on December 4 and handed over to the City of Cape Town on December 14, 2009.

You can find daily photos of the progress of the 2010 Cape Town Greenpoint Stadium on http://greenpointstadium-and-capetown.blogspot.com/

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Cape Town was yesterday officially apointed as the venue where the 2010 Soccer World Cup final draw – at which all the qualifying soccer teams will be allotted into groups – will take place.

The week-long event will culminate in a draw on December 4 at which the 32 participating teams will be divided into eight groups and is the last milestone before the tournament kicks off next year.

The draw is expected to attract more than 2000 guests, including all the qualifying teams’ coaches and captains, and will be held at the city’s Green Point Stadium, which is still under construction. Cape Town mayor Dan Plato said construction was on track and the stadium would be completed in time for the draw.

To date, 800000 of the 3,2-million World Cup tickets have been sold, with 240000 snapped up by South Africans, 57000 sold in the US and 27000 in Australia. Not many tickets have been sold in the rest of Africa, although Ghana is an exception.

Another concern among Cape Town residents was whether the R4,5bn Green Point Stadium would be viable after the World Cup, especially after the Western Province Rugby Union indicated that it was not interested in trading Newlands for the new stadium.

[via BusinessDay]