You may not have heard of the Celery fax-to-email service for the elderly in the past, but now that the company's rolling out Twitter and Facebook integration we'd bet it's the hottest ticket on the 4PM dinner scene -- Nanna's always had a thing for Ashton, after all. Built around a Lexmark fax machine (or your own, if you have one) the Celery service allows the computer-illiterate to send and receive emails, tweets, and Facebook status messages by simply writing down messages and faxing 'em out -- incoming messages can be printed out individually or in digest form to cope with volume. Add in a dash of RSS integration and hell, you've basically got the world's clunkiest netbook on your hands. Yep, interesting, but we'd almost rather pay the $14 / month service fee to make sure Nan never, ever sees our Facebook or Twitter pages.
posted May 5th 2009 1:39PM
This just adds to long list of reasons as to why twitter is the dumbest thing on the internet
what do you receive if i fax a picture of my butt?
I personally don't believe anyone actually uses twitter. I think it's just blown out of proportion by the media like low carb diets were.
Tweets?
Really? Is this what we really need to integrate into everything?
It's almost like bundling 1000 free hours on AOL.
The last straw for me was when news orgs and reporters started having tweets and facebook.
Whoa, exposure!
One of my best friends is the creator and CEO of Celery. HQ is about five minutes from my house, and I was there two weeks ago.
Crazy stuff.
Wow! That's amazing! And I ATE some celery just a few nights ago! It's a small world.
Maybe he will invite you to the office on "bring a douche to work day". :)P
Hey man, let me bask in my glory of having accomplished nothing but knowing someone who has ;)
You should tweet about that and be a bigger douche.
Twitter... not again. Why is Twitter everywhere I turn these days? It's just an annoying fad.
Tell me about it. I'm pretty tired of hearing about twitter everywhere I turn.
I think you should twitter your annoyances with twitter. I mean it only seems right.
How about learning how to use a computer instead?
**** twitter.
8888 it.
four eight's it or eight thousand eight hundred and eighy eight it?
even your grandma.
whats next? your dog?
BOOM!
is it Gran or Nan? make up your mind
5$ for finding a grandma that uses Twitter
ha... my grandma uses twitter.
Using this to send tweets would waste a lot of paper. This is definitely not green