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Work in progress. http://tintintoday-blog.tumblr.com/ https://twitter.com/tintintoday Tintin and the End of the Adventure presents a kind reflection on the narrative scope of the new Internet social media. It begins from a conjecture: if Tintin had Twitter or Facebook, the role of the adventure in his life would not only be impoverished, but directly, it could not even begin to happen. This biased assumption, points to the implicit ideology of the massive use of media that, in principle, are presented as neutral. From the most pernicious effects of the new social media, perhaps the most catastrophic, is to remove the possibility of adventure from the lives of the people. So to prove this conjecture, this project runs an experiment. Reviewing the literature of Tintin, to tweet its most fortunate moments. In a second step, the tweet is put in context, within a strip with the two preceding frames. The tweet acts as its punchline. At the end of the review of his 24 adven