The FIFA World Cup 2010 in South Africa has been featured solidly on Twitter since kickoff on Friday 11 June with trending topics related to the tournament featuring daily. Twitter has a dedicated site for the event and has added icons that appear on the Twitter website in tweets with specific hashtags relating to the event.

These hashtags include #worldcup that generates a little soccer-ball icon and flags for each of the 32 countries at the cup, such as #rsa for South Africa and #bra for Brazil.

Below is a table with all of the country codes for the event that Twitter will pick up and convert into icons.

Algeria – ALG	Mexico – MEX
Argentina – ARG	Netherlands – NED
Australia – AUS	New Zealand – NZL
Brazil – BRA	Nigeria – NGA
Cameroon – CMR	North Korea – PRK
Chile – CHI	Paraguay – PAR
Denmark – DEN	Portugal – POR
England – ENG	Serbia – SRB
France – FRA	Slovakia – SVK
Germany – GER	Slovenia – SVN
Ghana – GHA	South Africa – RSA
Greece – GRE	South Korea – KOR
Honduras – HON	Spain – ESP
Italy – ITA	Switzerland – SUI
Ivory Coast – CIV	United States – USA
Japan – JPN	Uruguay – URU