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In Government Vs Twitter, Made-In-India Koo Gains 900,000 Users In 5 Days In Government Vs Twitter, Made-In-India Koo Gains 900,000 Users In 5 Days The Koo app shot to prominence after the San Francisco company got into a weeks-long standoff with the government over blocking certain content.
Twitter s clash with the government has echoes of its controversial decisions in the US
An Indian alternative to Twitter Inc. is experiencing a surge in popularity after the US microblogging site clashed with the government, a sign of the growing political challenges for social media services.
The Koo app, which lets users send out tweet-like posts in English as well as seven Indian languages, shot to prominence after the San Francisco company got into a weeks-long standoff with the government over blocking certain content. Prominent officials including Piyush Goyal, the minister of industry and commerce defected to Koo and urged supporters to follow suit.
An Indian alternative to Twitter Inc. is experiencing a surge in popularity after the U.S. microblogging site clashed with the country’s government, a sign of the growing political challenges for social media services.
An Indian alternative to Twitter Inc. is experiencing a surge in popularity after the US microblogging site clashed with the country’s government, a sign of the growing political challenges for social media services. The Koo app, which lets users send out tweet-like posts in English as well as seven Indian languages, shot to prominence after the San Francisco company got into a weeks-long standoff with the Indian government over blocking certain content. Prominent officials including Piyush Goyal, the minister of industry and commerce defected to Koo and urged supporters to follow suit. That led to a 20-fold explosion in daily users, overwhelming the servers and 10-person engineering team at parent Bombinate Technologies Pvt. Aprameya Radhakrishna, co-founder and chief executive officer, said the Bangalore-based startup’s primary goal is not political at all, but rather to expand the reach of social media to a broader demographic.