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Twitter for old people: Tweeting via fax machine

Dorothy Miller has hopped on the Twitter bandwagon, but the 80-year-old grandmother doesn’t use a computer or mobile device to update her status. Nope, Dorothy tweets away with the help of a fax machine and a New York-based service called Celery.

Celery allows users, many of them computer-phobic senior citizens, to submit tweets, blog entries, Facebook updates or emails via fax machine and then posts the content online for more tech-savvy friends and family to see.

Dorothy loves the service, commenting to a local news station: “I don’t usually write to my daughter that much because she talks too much. And that takes up too much of my time, but she can read my twitterings here and she can see what her mother’s doing and know that her mother’s okay.”

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Comments (7)

Dec 16, 2009
Annie Colbert said...
Hmm, I wonder if they offer a snail mail version of this because I'm pretty sure my mom doesn't know how to use a fax machine. :-/
Dec 17, 2009
Ilan Peer said...
i really want to follow those fax tweets. what's her @username?
Dec 17, 2009
Reno_Web_Design said...
Twitter was invented in 1935... http://dennismuse.com/wpblog/?p=593
Dec 17, 2009
irene ang said...
Well,i really salute them going all way thru fax to get into d social media ...
Dec 17, 2009
Pete said...
According to their Web site, she is @dorothy_celery
Dec 17, 2009
Ilan Peer said...
thanks Pete
Dec 17, 2009
GEEKgirl said...
Great article! i like the idea of folks helping the Senior Citizens,
i’m hoping there are more blogs, newsletters, ezines, websites, and
reports out there.

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