Introduction

#shakeass13 is an archive of tweets generated during the annual meeting of the Shakespeare Association of America, held in 2013 from March 28-30 in Toronto. There was no official hashtag for this conference, so there might be other tweets associated with other hashtags that this archive does not capture. You can browse the tweets by dates, people, and the other options linked at the top of this page. You can also explore this archive through its TAGSExplorer visualization.

TAGS Viewer allows users to browse, explore, and search a Twitter archive. As a backend, it requires Martin Hawksey’s Twitter Archive Google Spreadsheet (TAGS). TAGS provides a free, non-technical method of archiving tweets for a given hashtag, which can be particularly useful for capturing a conference’s backchannel.

This application is contained in a single HTML file and has no server dependencies, which makes it easy to host anywhere: just upload a single file (this one!) and you’re done. Or, if you don’t need to share it with anyone, just double-click the file on your hard drive to open it in your Web browser. Configuration is as simple as supplying a Google Spreadsheet URL.

Read more about this project at Github or download a zip file of the latest version. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License.