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What is Koo, Who Made it? Top Ten Questions You Had about Twitter s New Desi Doppelganger
Koo is an Indian version of the microblogging app Twitter | Image credit: Reuters
What is Koo and why is the Indian government joining it? And what does it have to do with Twitter?
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On Tuesday, Union Minister of Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal shared an invite with his followers on Twitter to join a new microblogging social media site called Koo. Soon after that, several ministers and ministries, as well as the others, shared invites to join Koo.
Desi microblogging platform Koo will have to cover a lot of ground to be Twitter alternative
Desi microblogging platform Koo will have to cover a lot of ground to be Twitter alternative
Koo is a 10-month old microblogging platform that shot to fame during the AatmaNirbhar Bharat App Innovation Challenge last year.
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Koo is a 10-month old platform which is being touted as desi Twitter alternative
HIGHLIGHTS
It needs your mobile number for sign-up.
Unlike Twitter, Koo offers 400 characters to write.
Koo, the microblogging platform has been in the news lately, and many reports on the Internet have touted it as the Twitter alternative. People talking about Koo, the desi microblogging platform, on social media platforms including Twitter, go in-sync with the several ministries joining the platform. The latest being Piyush Goyal, Minister of Railways; Commerce & Industry and Consumer Affairs and Food & Public Distribution, Government of India. Goyal joined the Koo platf
Twitter Row: MeitY, Other Govt Departments Flock to Homegrown App Koo This move comes as a strategic response as an action against Twitter for not complying with the order for blocking around 257 Tweets and Twitter accounts which were tweeting about farmer genocide, Koo said in a statement.
Koo app
Tech10/Feb/2021
New Delhi: The Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY) and some other government departments have set up accounts on native micro-blogging site Koo after Twitter did not comply with the government’s directive to block some tweets and accounts, the homegrown firm said.
Koo said it has so far verified handles of MeitY, MyGov, Digital India, India Post, National Informatics Centre, National Institute of Electronics and Information Technology, Common Services Centre, UMANG app, Digi Locker, National Internet Exchange of India, Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs, among others, on its platform.