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Available in multiple Indian languages, Koo enables people from different regions in India to express themselves in their mother tongue.
Feb 11, 2021 · At a time when the Indian government and Twitter have locked horns over free speech on social media platforms, Koo – a homegrown app modelled along the lines of the US -based microblogging site –...
- Namita Singh
- What Is Koo?
- Why Is Koo Trending?
- What Are Koo’s Features?
Just line Twitter, Koo is a microblogging service where users express their opinions. Developed by Aprameya Radhakrishna, also the co-founder and CEO, Koo was launched in March, 2020. Earlier, Radhakrishna also founded ride-hailing firm TaxiForSure and sold it to Ola for $200 million in 2016. According to the ‘About’ section on the Koo website, the...
Koo started trending after Union Minister Piyush Goyal tweeted about joining the homegrown app following the disagreement between Indian government and Twitter. You can read all about the clash between Twitter and the Indian government here. Apart from Goyal, senior politicians like Minister of Electronics and IT Ravi Shankar Prasad and Karnataka C...
Koo’s features are similar to Twitter as it allows users to follow individuals and browse through a feed. Users write messages in text or share them in audio or video formats. It has Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, Tamil, and English language options, with other coming soon. Messages are up to 400 characters in length and are called ‘Koo’. It also has lang...
Feb 10, 2021 · Koo is the Indian alternative to Twitter that wants to focus on an AatmaNirbhar Bharat, by offering a microblogging experience in Indian languages, by Indians, for Indians. It is available as an app on both iOS and Android.
Feb 14, 2021 · A little yellow chick is gaining prominence in India as a result of tensions between Twitter and the Indian government. Koo, a new microblogging app, is being used by government departments...
Sep 2, 2021 · Koo, India's alternative to Twitter Inc., has surged past 10 million users to narrow the gap with the U.S. microblogging site after its repeated clashes with the local government over the...
