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Spanish specialist in computers and programming Diego Buendia decided to play the famous novel by Miguel de Cervantes " don Quixote " in 17 thousand

the tweets.

the spec of IT-technologies to accommodate novel that contains more than 2 million characters, up to April 22, 2016 - the 400-year anniversary of the death of Cervantes,

reports " Spain in Russian." The project developed Buendia, was launched on 6 September, and since then two thousand (to this point) its subscribers every hour have the opportunity to read the tweets, 140 characters each (maximum allowable amount), with fragments of a book.

Punctuality, which is published in " don Quixote " - the merit of his algorithm of don Diego. This algorithm gives the possibility to issue a new tweet every sixty minutes, not cutting off the words of the original.

Buendia said that, of course, it would be better and " romantic " to enter each letter of the novel manually, which would take 24 hours, but should not be underestimated and his work: he invented a convenient formula publish tweets that meets the needs of its subscribers, and daily checks each of the published excerpts.

to the question, why was chosen work of Cervantes, IT specialist is responsible,

that don Quixote is an excellent candidate to marry the best of literature with the best of technologies " and generally, " any great work of world literature would be easier to digest if it was released on Twitter ".


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