Mario Klingermann has set out and accomplished something probably none of us have really even accepted as being possible. He has managed to tweet an image of the Mona Lisa, albeit with the end product resembling a more cubist take on the original.
Seeing as Twitter's 140 character limit translates into only about 140 bytes of data this would seem to be an impossible task. But being the clever man he is, Klingermann, designed an image encoder that translates the Mona Lisa in this case into Chinese characters, allowing him to utilize 210 bytes of information as opposed to the theoretical maximum of ~140.
Once decoded, the characters form a Voronoi Diagram, or a series of polygons that translate into colors and shapes. Unfortunately Twitter won't do this for you, the decoder Klingermann uses is not something that comes standard with any Twitter client.
While he explains that he still doesn't see any immediate practical application for this he will release the code he used to spawn a little creativity in aspiring Twitter gurus.
A thorough collection of Klingermann's other experiements: computational experiments
source: http://www.webmonkey.com/blog/The_Da_Vinci_Code%3A_What_Happens_When_You_Twitter_the_Mona_Lisa_
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