See my post, "it's a twitter-happy go-go springsteen nation," which begins:

Via @courtneybird who retweeted @nickbilton and an email message from my father (who refuses to Twitter but sends me all sorts of Twitter-related news articles), the New York Times has semantically and geographically represented on the continental United States an interactive tag cloud of popular terms Twittered during the Super Bowl. . . .



What follows is an analysis of the data represented within the graphic.