Social data nerds, rejoice: Twitter released on Thursday an interactive map showing Barack Obama and Mitt Romney's most engaging tweets by state.

By default, the map shows a list of both candidates' most interactive tweets. When you click each tweet, the map changes to reflect how popular each tweet was throughout the 50 states. Tweets are sorted by overall engagement, but they can also be sorted by engagement per state.

Users can search by keyword to find tweets relevant to a topic of interest -- "college" or "Iraq," for example. Clicking an individual state also reveals the hot topics being discussed in that state.

Some of the results make perfect sense -- a Romney tweet about…
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