Twitter, the social networking site/service with a strict, 140-character limit for status messages (
known as "tweets" in Twitter-speak), has sprung to huge popularity lately as more and more people want to share what they're up to right this minute. We've also seen how the service/site has helped some people to
share information about disasters, but now one Twitter user has come up with a rather interesting use for the service:
He is twittering the entirety of Herman Melville's classi novel 'Moby Dick' -- 140 characters at a time.
'Moby Dick' clocks in at a little over 200,000 words. Each tweet (a single Twitter post) is coming in at around 20 words or so, meaning something like 10,000 tweets will be required before (spoiler alert!) Ishmael and the whale have their mighty confrontation. No Cliff's Notes here. [Source:
Twitter]