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.
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.
We also looked at the top tweets that mention "fireworks." Congrats, Neil deGrasse Tyson. You win again for dropping a little science on us all. Click the circles to see who had some of the best July 4 tweets this year.