There is a rumor going around that OnStar and Twitter may be teaming up for one of the oddest partnerships wet’ve ever heard of.
According to GearLive, they recently were asked by an OnStar survey how they would feel about the possability of using Twitter through their built-in service.
“While in your vehicle, you can use OnStar to submit and retrieve tweets (messages) via your Twitter account. Using OnStar’s Voice-Activated Hands-Free Calling system, and having your voice converted into text, you can provide updates which would appear in the “What are you doing?” section of your Twitter homepage. It is also possible to listen to a tweet that was sent to you by someone else after it has been converted into voice. You can send and receive tweets without having to type or read anything.”
Well, it’s an interesting idea to say the least, but can you imagine listening to your entire friend’s stream while driving down the road? And what happens when it gets to a shortened URL? Is it going to read that to you also? We could see it possibly be interesting if it could be set to only read replies and direct messages to you, but listening to your unfiltered friend’s Tweets while driving down the road… I would liken that to having my ears bleed.
It is an interesting concept, and if truly under consideration, it shows just haw far into the mainstream Twitter has gone. The mind boggles at the number of items we could see Twitter gradually getting integrated into. “Honey, I was making toast and the toaster showed you had a Tweet from your brother…”





