Filed under: Computers, Social Networking
You may still not have acquired a taste for Celery, but chances are your grandparents have, or they will have if they have a fax machine. Confused? Celery is a way to allow those without computer smarts to e-mail and Twitter via paper, as 80-year-old Dorothy Miller demonstrates to WTEN News 10.
Celery has been around for a while, but Twitter integration is new. To use it, the person simply writes their tweet onto a sheet of paper and feeds it into a fax machine. It’s received by the Celery system, which does a little character recognition and posts it online. Tweets by those that the Celery user follows are aggregated together and, once a day, faxed back to them to read — after finishing the New York Times crossword or their evening programs, of course. Also, as Dorothy explains, it keeps needless conversation conveniently brief.
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