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"The contest ranks the top 20 countries based on the number of tweets, YouTube videos and Flickr photos submitted. Fans already have submitted more than 20,000 tweets with Great Britain in the lead, followed by Brazil, the U.S., Canada and the Netherlands. \nTo be considered, tweets need to include the hashtag #1YearToGo, along with the three-letter code for your country. The aim of the contest: to promote the fact that we're a year away from the opening ceremony of 2012 London Games on July 27, 2012.\n\n\n2012 Olympic Games Twitter Stadium\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLet the Contest Begin\nThe London2012.com contest ranks the top 20 countries based on the number of tweets, videos and photos submitted. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Tweets Are Rolling In\nTwitter users have submitted more than 20,000 tweets, as of 5 p.m. ET on July 26.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChoose Your Country\nA pop-up menu allows you to choose which country to support.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTweet Your Support\nCustomize your tweet. All tweets will include the three-letter format of a respective country and the hashtag #1YearToGo.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Top 20\nThe top 5 spots so far goes to Great Britain, Brazil, U.S., Canada and the Netherlands in the lead, as of 5 p.m. ET on July 26.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGlobe View\nClick on the \"View Globe\" mode to see the tweets, videos and pictures from fans across the world. There, you can view those items by country.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGet Visual With Video ...\nYou can submit videos via London 2012's YouTube channel.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n... or With Photos\nYou also can use your Flickr to submit photos by tagging your images with \"1yeartogo\" and the name of a country.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAs with past sporting events, social media will play a huge role in how fans participate in next summer's 17-day festivity, whether they're watching from home or at one of the 32 Olympic venues. We'll have to wait to see if the level of tweets reaches the magnitude seen during this month's FIFA Women\u2019s World Cup final game, for example, when Twitter users set a new record of 7,196 tweets per second.\nLast month, the Olympic Committee officially encouraged the 10,500 competing athletes from 200 countries to \"take part in social media and to post, blog and tweet their experiences,\" so long as their efforts are not for commercial purposes. \nTweets aside, the official Olympic website \u2014 London2012.com \u2014 has cranked up ways for fans to get involved well before the opening ceremony. In March, the website unveiled a feature in which users can create an Olympic mascot and share it on Facebook and Twitter.\nImage courtesy of London.com, ODA."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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