Don Quixote on Twitter site
From the Jan16 issue of Melbourne newspaper the Age:
DON QUIXOTE TAKES A TILT AT BRINGING CULTURE TO TWITTER, IN 140-CHARACTER BITES
He was the hero of hopeless causes and the defender of imaginary damsels. Now fans of Don Quixote, the Spanish literary character who tilted at windmills, are embarking on an appropriately quixotic challenge - to put the entire contents of Don Quixote de La Mancha on the Twitter microblogging site. The Twijote project, as it is known, aims to publish the 470-odd pages of the first volume of Don Quixote's adventures using just the 140-character blocks of text allowed by Twitter. It has set itself strict rules of the honourable but potentially foolish kind of which Don Quixote and his creator, Miguel de Cervantes, might have approved. The 8200-odd tweets needed to get to the end of the first volume must come from one-off visitors to the Twijote site. They are given the next block of 140 characters of text to put on Twitter. "We reckon it will take about a year, if people stick with it," said Pablo Lopez, a web designer from the north-western Spanish city of Vigo who thought up the project. "The idea is to show that culture can exist in social media - that it is not just a place for nerds and freaks," he said. Twijote has no sponsors and no ambition to make money. It is something we put up to see what would happen. I had the idea one day and came into the office and persuaded people it was worth doing." Volunteers have signed on from throughout Spain and Latin America, with visitors from non-Spanish speaking countries such as Finland.
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