When two ambitious freshmen at the University of Chicago decided they wanted to publish tweeted summaries of the world’s greatest books, a permanent revolving door was installed between Twitter and literature: Twitterature was born. There has since been an endless coalescence of books and tweets, but perhaps none as grandiose as a new project cooked up by some Spaniards to tweet the entirety of Don Quixote.

It’s called Twijote (cute, right?), and it’s the brainchild of Spanish web designer Pablo López, who is attempting to publish Don Quixote’s first volume of adventures in 140-character spurts. He says the project will require about 8,200 tweets and a year’s time – an arduous process that, for readers, makes the task of finishing a book like Don Quixote far less daunting.

A literary project that will function without sponsorship or a drive to earn money, Twijote is pure social media experimentation and relies on Spanish-speaking volunteers who’ve visited the Twijote site and who will, one-by-one, be given the next 140-character chunk of plot to post.

The Twitter publication of Don Quixote differs from Spain’s flagship online literary project – a Tweet-novel called Serial Chicken – because it represents the Webification of a classic instead of the creation of Twitter-oriented original material.

“The idea is to show that culture can exist in social media – that it is not just a place for nerds and freaks,” López told the Guardian.