As Americans anxiously awaited a decision out of a Ferguson, Mo., grand jury Monday on whether to indict Officer Darren Wilson in the fatal shooting of Michael Brown, many took to Twitter to comment on the final ruling in a lightning storm of responses across the country.
The map below by cartobd.com uses data from geo-tagged tweets referencing Ferguson to show mentions on Twitter leading up to the moment Monday night that authorities announced Wilson would face no charges — a point of explosive traffic visually apparent in the graphic.
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