Twitter gives you exactly 140 characters to say whatever it is you have to say and move on. That's not a lot of characters. So one has to wonder if the world really needs Twitter versions of the great classics of literature. (Don't be a wiseguy, now. Some of us really do like Moby-Dick in its entirety. Really. Yes, really!!!) And by the way, the reference to Facebook: The Movie is not a joke. Really. Yes, really...
Mashable: If you thought Facebook: The Movie was a stretch, close your ears to “Twitterature: The World’s Greatest Books, Now Presented in Twenty Tweets or Less”, an upcoming title from Penguin books, penned by two 19 year-olds.
Reports this week from the LATimes and Galleycat confirm that college students Emmett Rensin and Alex Aciman successfully sold the rights to the book to Penguin, the premise being that Tweets can refine literature “to its purest form”. More...
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