"Ulysses" On Twitter

Can you imagine James Joyce's 1922 novel "Ulysses" on Twitter? Here's the article explaining how two people tried it. An excerpt:

Twitter, the social networking site favored by some celebrities, has gone highbrow with a performance from James Joyce's 1922 novel "Ulysses."

Two "Ulysses" enthusiasts, videogame designer Ian Bogost from the Georgia Institute of Technology and colleague Ian McCarthy, wanted to use the site in a culturally interesting way rather than just as a service that lets users send 140-character messages, known as tweets.

They came up with idea of re-creating a chapter from "Ulysses" on Twitter.

They chose chapter 10, Wandering Rock, which is famous for showing the interlocking events of 19 characters walking through central Dublin on their daily business.

Bogost and McCarthy registered 54 of the novel's characters as Twitter users and adapted the chapter in a large series of 140-character-or-less first-person statements, using a specially created software to automate a performance.