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80-year-old Troy grandma uses Twitter to connect with family

TROY, N.Y. -- There is no age limit when it comes to using Twitter, the social media network that allows people to communicate online with short messages.

Take 80-year-old Dorothy Miller of Troy, for example.

Miller uses Twitter every day to keep in touch with her grandchildren across the country, but not in the traditional sense.

She has signed up for a service called Celery, invented by a graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Instead of typing on a computer, Miller simply writes out her short messages on paper, feeds them to the Celery service through a fax machine and then her messages are electronically posted to her Twitter page for all her family to see.

"I don't usually write to my daughter because she talks to too much, takes up too much of my time," Miller joked. "She can read my Twittering and see what her mother is doing and knows I am ok. And I enjoy this. It has given me communication with my family, which i didn't really have before."

She can also send emails that she writes in long hand and is able to print off her own Twitter page updates to read responses of people she is following.