Koo : India s alternative to Twitter is filled with anti-Muslim hate
More than a dozen Indian government departments now use Koo
Wednesday February 24, 2021 3:11 PM, Pranav Dixit, BuzzFeed
[The Twitter logo in front of the Koo app logo (Reuters/File Photo)]
New Delhi: In early February, politicians from India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party started signing up for a social network that almost nobody had heard of.
“I am now on Koo,” India’s commerce minister
posted on Twitter to his nearly 10 million followers. “Connect with me on this Indian micro-blogging platform for real-time, exciting and exclusive updates.”
Millions of people, most of them BJP supporters, followed, and the Twitter clone became an instant hit, installed by more than 2 million people over 10 days earlier this month, according to app analytics firm Sensor Tower.