--- description: Not only was Sunday's Super Bowl the most watched show in U.S. history, but it lit up Twitter pretty spectacularly as well. The chart above... title: Super Bowl 48 Tweets: Mapping the World's Conversation image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Business](/section/business/) ## Business Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Tech](/tag/time-section-tech/) ## Tech Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # EXCLUSIVE: This Is How Twitter Talked About the Super Bowl by [Maya Rhodan](/author/maya-rhodan/) ## Maya Rhodan Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Feb 3, 2014 11:46 PM CUT by [Maya Rhodan](/author/maya-rhodan/) ## Maya Rhodan Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Feb 3, 2014 11:46 PM CUT Not only was Sunday’s Super Bowl the [most watched show](http://keepingscore.blogs.time.com/2014/02/03/super-bowl-xlviii-most-watched-tv-show-ever/ "undefined") in U.S. history, but it lit up Twitter pretty spectacularly as well. The chart above –provided exclusively to TIME by Twitter — shows which team got the most buzz throughout the night. Not only can you see the chart light up for each team, but you can also click the map to see exactly what people were tweeting. Watch closely, and you’ll also see a neon purple glow, representing the halftime show, light up the entire country for a moment. Throughout the game, about 5.6 million Americans sent 25.3 million tweets, according to Nielsen’s SocialGuide. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4022/twitter-super-bowl-visualization/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4022/twitter-super-bowl-visualization/"},"headline":"EXCLUSIVE: This Is How Twitter Talked About the Super Bowl","datePublished":"2014-02-03T23:46:20.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:01:32.837Z","description":"Not only was Sunday's Super Bowl the most watched show in U.S. history, but it lit up Twitter pretty spectacularly as well. The chart above...","url":"https://time.com/4022/twitter-super-bowl-visualization/","keywords":["Tech","twitter","Super Bowl topic"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Maya Rhodan","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/"}],"articleSection":"Business","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/business/","name":"Business"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-tech/","name":"Tech"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4022/twitter-super-bowl-visualization/","name":"EXCLUSIVE: This Is How Twitter Talked About the Super Bowl"}}]}] ```