Contact tracing app #fail in UK: government now develops two apps, to have a choice between the devil and the deep blue sea. https://t.co/c80gP69wzs

— Casilli (@AntonioCasilli) May 8, 2020

Soon, only France will be left pushing back against the Google+Apple exposure notification model. https://t.co/1kbP3fJd6w

— Ben Adida (@benadida) May 8, 2020

Bearing in mind how brilliant the Government has always been at running large IT projects, it was wholly unforseeable that they would turn out not to be as good at making apps as Google or Apple. https://t.co/jWo0a5Ekix

— Tom Holland (@holland_tom) May 8, 2020

Why have just one tracing app when for twice as much money you can have two? https://t.co/icDhz8gVuU

— Mike Wilson #FBPE #RejoinEU ?????????? (@PoetTaxiDriver) May 8, 2020

The NHS has already begun building a second coronavirus contact-tracing app, which will use technology provided by Google and Apple, following criticism of the first app it launched this week on the Isle of Wight https://t.co/qnHzv7uXPC

— Financial Times (@FinancialTimes) May 8, 2020

Matthew Gould, head of NHSX, gave the go-ahead on the decentralised app this week, just as the centralised app was being unveiled on Isle of Wight. No final decision has been made on which will be launched to the general public but this is more than just a feasibility test.

— Tim Bradshaw (@tim) May 8, 2020

“The second NHS app will use technology provided by Google and Apple and is being developed “in parallel”, in case politicians decide to make a switch” https://t.co/4o6wqbinfV

— Fabio Chiusi (@fabiochiusi) May 8, 2020

The gov app will not work cross boarder (NI-Ireland), will kill your battery, will have had to been voluntary downloaded, wont work fully on iPhone and will leak your data. The apple-google app would will be more secure, faster, and automatic https://t.co/KrlmPT97wA

— Lloyd Russell-Moyle MP????️‍? (@lloyd_rm) May 8, 2020

So this is awesome. @techreview put together a "Covid Tracing Tracker" to identify contact tracing apps, how they work, and privacy/security policies in place. https://t.co/HC3VCtFy1F pic.twitter.com/kTJqALvVyf

— Selena (@selenalarson) May 8, 2020

We put together a central database of national contact tracing apps. It's a first version that will grow and change, please help us build and improve it. https://t.co/ZbJ1m5OvAD pic.twitter.com/pEbLg8naHd

— Patrick Howell O'Neill (@HowellONeill) May 8, 2020

We just launched @techreview's Covid Tracing Tracker, a database of the government-backed contact tracing apps around the world, with civil-liberties assessments of each one based on @ACLU criteria. We'll be keeping it updated—help us do so! https://t.co/GF63yhAZyE pic.twitter.com/AzgA1vQaRO

— Gideon Lichfield (@glichfield) May 7, 2020

“Covid Tracing Tracker—a database to capture details of every significant automated contact tracing effort around the world.” https://t.co/VjS2IfQ5YW

— All I don't wanna do is zoom-a-zoom-zoom-zoom (@hypervisible) May 8, 2020

Coronavirus: NHS reveals source code behind contact-tracing app https://t.co/HP6WrFXRPA

— Rory Cellan-Jones (@ruskin147) May 7, 2020

It's here! The source code for the COVID-19 BETA Apps.

✅Android: https://t.co/fdCzEcND47
✅iOS: https://t.co/6JNR1PmkHE
✅Documentation: https://t.co/OFGq9lbOfg

— NHSX (@NHSX) May 7, 2020

The NHS COVID-19 app’s source code has been published: https://t.co/4AxEulGCNs

— Reincubate (@reincubate) May 7, 2020

Good news - source code for NHS contact tracing app now available https://t.co/fqqi1ctdo7 cc @tabithagold

— Martin Tisné (@martintisne) May 8, 2020

Cool, it over a decade for my dad to finally admit Betamax had been the wrong decision.* This is progress. https://t.co/UOxBJMOsyi

— Steve Bullock (@GuitarMoog) May 8, 2020

A flood of coronavirus apps are tracking us.
Now it’s time to keep track of them.

There's a deluge of apps that detect your #covid19 exposure, often with little transparency. @TechReview's Covid Tracing Tracker project will document themhttps://t.co/MOjnmaSjRU

— Marsha Collier (@MarshaCollier) May 8, 2020

Why countries keep bowing to Apple and Google’s contact tracing app requirements: They who make the hardware make the rules The Verge https://t.co/4GKtqncATj

— TheCyberChick (@warriors_mom) May 8, 2020

Why countries keep bowing to Apple and Google’s contact tracing app requirements https://t.co/s40XM3ej2j pic.twitter.com/GFZHHbXNYI

— The Verge (@verge) May 8, 2020

mostly because the Apple/Google solution would work better and protect privacy better, and the random solutions various countries keep pushing are trash that random contractors threw together https://t.co/AtVSukAoYv

— John Bergmayer (@bergmayer) May 8, 2020