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Super Bowl Twitter Map Highlights Most Popular Tweet Words

by Chad Mumm on February 5, 2009 at 08:17 AM




While the Steelers and Cardinals battled for the Lombardi trophy, America was "tweeting." Similar to the Word Train it featured on Election Day, the New York Times has posted this time-lapse map of the country showing the location and frequency of the most commonly used words in Super Bowl posts (called 'tweets') on the micro-blog site Twitter.

Twitter has quickly become a useful way to measure the pulse of the country, and watching trends emerge and bloom then ebb and die during the time-line of the game is intriguing to say the least. The explosion of "Springsteen" all over the country except Arizona (which stuck with its "Cardinals") during halftime is hilarious.

The interactive map allows you to sort the data in useful ways: Steelers vs Cardinals, talking about ads, player names, emoticons, people saying "go," and all tweets. Pick a category, keep an eye on your state and press play! [From The New York Times]

Tags: cardinals, football, microblogging, nytimes, polls, social networking, social-networking, SocialNetworking, sports, steelers, super bowl, super bowl ads, SuperBowl, SuperBowlAds, Twitter

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