Map of July 4 Tweets Shows Twitter Had Its Own Fireworks Show

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It looks like Twitter had its own version of a fireworks show on July 4

Mashable teamed up with Twitter and cloud-based mapping platform CartoDB to show how Americans celebrated Independence Day — while they watched fireworks, naturally — as the sun went down across the United States.

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When the rockets began to explode — in New York City, Nashville, Chicago, Houston and Los Angeles — mentions of "fireworks" on Twitter exploded, too.

Watch the time in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. As it approaches sunset at around 8:30 p.m., local time, America lights up with fireworks Read more...

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