Welcome to the Tech Mem Right Home for Thursday, May 21st, 2020.

I'm Brian McCullough today.

Twitter is testing another new feature to limit trolls and give users greater control over their threads. The Google and

Apple contact tracing API is here. What is the tactical addition of a galaxy phone and

why might you need one and some interesting raises this Thursday.

Here's what you missed today in the world of tech.

Twitter is testing a feature that would let the author of a tweet limit who can

reply to it by offering up the options of everyone can reply only people you follow, only people you follow, or only people you mention can reply.

If you try to reply to a thread and aren't allowed to, Twitter will let you know. Again this is giving users more control

over the very basic tweet product at a level of granularity that Twitter could

have provided at any time over the last decade

and it would have been more than welcome but you know better late than never.

Quoting Tech Crunch.

Only a limited group can use the test feature right now, though anyone with a Twitter

account can view the conversations.

Because it's in testing mode, there's no guarantee that this will become a universal feature,

but Twitter says the rollout is designed to, quote, give people more opportunities

to weigh in while still giving people control over the conversations they start, end quote.

Director of Product Management, Suzanne G, mentions the phenomenon of reply guys in a post announcing the feature.

One of Twitter's greatest benefits and downsides is its openness relative to platforms like Facebook.

Anyone and everyone can reply directly to a tweet and that's not always ideal for the

sender.

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