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It looks as though a Twitter user is attempting to republish the Pulitzer Prize-winning saga Roots, one tweet at a time.
Several book-oriented Twitter feeds exist, including TwitterLit (literary opening lines) and Twittilate (semi-erotic tales), but this appears to be the first attempt at twittering an entire book.
Twittering Alex Haley's groundbreaking story of an African boy brought to the United States in the 1700s is no easy feat.
An average binding of the book clocks in at a hefty 736 pages, and though user kuntak is abbreviating the original text somewhat, the task is still a daunting one.
We're not sure who is behind it or how far they'll get, but stay tuned. We're keeping our eyes on it as the story unfolds.
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