A retired computer engineer is cross the foursome centenary of the decease of Spain's august source Miguel de Cervantes by publishing his best-known tonic "Don Quixote" online -- one Twitter meaning at a time. Barcelona-based Diego Buendia, 55, told AFP he got the idea in August 2004 "slice jocular how big it would be to get the classics published on Peep." Chirp messages are limited to 140 characters and Buendia exploited an algorithm to disassociate the wise around a delusional wanna-be sawhorse into a sum of 17, 000 tweets . He so set Twitter reputation @elquijote1605 that posts 28 fragments of the new every day, decorated with a picture of white-washed windmills, a nod to the outdo -known episode of the intensity when Don Quixote fights windmills he imagines are giants. The bill has concluded 7,500 next, including Spain's Premier Mariano Rajoy. Buendia plans to circulate the final Twitter contented on Friday -- the anniversary of Cervantes' anxious -- at midday from Alcazar de San Juan, a colony in Spain's exsiccate primal neighbourhood of La Mancha which claims to be the birthplace of the reference.
Official biographies, still, say he was born in 1547 in Alcala de Henares rough Madrid.
More 300 events -- exhibitions, plays, readings, conferences -- are taking stain in Spain o'er the yr to scrawl his end.
On Saturday, Spain's royals and the pm bequeath advert Alcala de Henares to attend the prize-giving observance for the annual Miguel de Cervantes award, which honours the sprightliness acquirement of a source.
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