I heard over a thousand tea parties. Where did you hear the two thou number?
2000 plus was talked about right here on FR, and posted on at least two other websites that were attempting to track them all.
Going through the thread and adding the lower estimates and rounding down, I get 159,200, up to my Peoria post.
I did not include any corrections, and I didn’t check for double posts of the same site—I only caught San Antonio being posted a couple of times.