How many tweets would it take to put an entire book on Twitter?

In 2010, fans of the famous Spanish novel Don Quixote de la Mancha, by Miguel de Cervantes, decided to find out.

Widely considered to be one of the most influential works of literature, Don Quixote is the story of an idealistic but foolish knight in the 1600s.

A nonprofit group, called the Twijote project, set out to publish the entire first volume of the book–470 pages!–on Twitter. It required about 8,000 tweets to do so.

Some believed the project was as quixotic (see definition and hear pronunciation below) as the hero of the novel himself.

But Pablo Lopez, the web designer from Spain who dreamed up the project, said: “The idea is to show that culture can exist in social media.”

Cool word vocabulary question of the day: Can something that seems quixotic at first actually be useful?

Quixotic: Exceedingly idealistic; extravagantly romantic; unrealistic and impractical.

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