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From the previous World Cup in 2006, online retransmission of the sports has improved considerably and the Internet has become one of the common media  to follow the matches. Several television stations decided to broadcast in streaming games to reach the public and not having the games trough television.

Either the victory in the election of Barack Obama or Michael Jackson’s death, nor launch iPad not generated much traffic to the sites such as the football World Cup in South Africa. Le Figaro notes that, immediately after the starting whistle of the first match, 112 million visitors have entered every minute on the sites supervised by Akma, the specialist of the networks, setting a world record. This figure was double that a normal day of  championship.

Sites that do not have rights to broadcast video and statistics wrote public comments. On the New York Times, for example, every minute, action and event of the game is monitored minute by minute.

Very popular on the news sites, 2010 Soccer World Cup is the first that was organized in social networks era where communities of friends commented the matches.

Nearly 60,000 French have expressed on Facebook the support for the national team and a special page on Twitter are occurring all the messages that evokes competition.

According to a Nielsen survey, 21% of football fans worldwide are expected to follow the World Cup on your mobile phone. Applications that can be traced directly matches the results are at the top downloads on the iPhone, whether paid or free.

So far, increased traffic and content volume had serious consequences, but the threat hangs in the air. Twitter, which has doubled the capacity, warned that the network might crash, and this is almost certainly the final time.

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Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, is in the center of an investigation done by police in Pakistan, under a penal code article on blasphemy against Prophet Muhammad.
According to BBC Urdu, quoted by The Register, the scandal started with a cartoon contest called “Draw him Mohammed, the social network launched last month. On May 19, Pakistani authorities have blocked access to the site, but the ban was lifted on May 31, after Facebook deleted the page that competition can be viewed in Pakistan and other Muslim countries.

Contact the journal The Register, site representatives did not want to comment on the case.

Although officially not an accusation was formulated, Mark Zuckerberg is being investigated on charges of blasphemy, and risked death penalty.

According to the police complaint lodged by many Pakistani lawyers, the criminal code provides that “out of respect for the Holy Prophet, using exceptional remarks, be it written or spoken words, or visual representation, or any direct or indirect insinuation pangareste sacred name of Holy Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) will be punishable by death or life imprisonment and will be accompanied also by criminal fine.

So I have peace with the Prophet Muhammad, but not with Mark Zuckerberg. At least until the investigation.

According to The Register, Pakistani authorities will even sign a cooperation with Interpol for the boss to be arrested on Facebook.

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