As the Steelers and Cardinals battled on the field, Twitter users across the nation pecked out a steady stream of "tweets." The map shows the location and frequency of commonly used words in Super Bowl related messages.
[From Map of Popular Super Bowl Words Used on Twitter - Interactive Graphic - NYTimes.com]
"Tweets" are what Twitter users do. I don't know why they don't call them "twits." Or "chirps." Twitter is sort of like what Channel 1 of CompuServe's chat service used to be - hundreds of people all typing "hi, I'm here" at the same time. Only bigger. Sometimes, the graphic shows, they type other things. Like "go."
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