Monica Stephens:
So in honor of the 4th of July, we selected all geotagged tweets[1] sent within the continental US between June 22 and June 28 (about 10 million in total) and extracted all tweets containing the word “church” (17,686 tweets of which half originated on Sunday) or “beer” (14,405 tweets which are much more evenly distributed throughout the week).
I don’t tweet about either subject, but I grew up in Wisconsin and now live in Massachusetts. You can probably guess which side I’d fall on.
Nitpick: Continental U.S. should include Alaska. They mean contiguous.