India’s version of twitter: kooapp ! Central govt promoting it to keep twitter at check !

[Jambhalheart]

At a time when the Centre is embroiled in a kerfuffle with microblogging site Twitter over blocking of certain accounts, several ministers and departments of the Union government have started flocking on Koo App — a homemade version of the social networking platform.

 

 

Who is behind the Koo App?

 

 

The microblogging site was co-founded by entrepreneurs Aprameya Radhakrishna and Mayank Bidwatka. Radhakrishna had founded online cab booking service TaxiForSure, which was subsequently sold to Ola Cabs. Prior to Koo, its parent company — Bombinate Technologies Pvt Ltd — launched and is operating the Indian version of Quora called Vokal. According to data sourced from Crunchbase, the company raised Series A funding in 2018 from a clutch of investors including Blume Ventures, Kalaari Capital and Accel Partners India. In the latest round of funding announced earlier this month, former Infosys CFO TV Mohandas Pai’s 3one4 Capital also joined the list of those investing in Bombinate Technologies.

 

Which prominent accounts are there on Koo App?

Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal, Law & IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, Members of Parliament Tejasvi Surya and Shobha Karandlaje, Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa, Isha Foundation’s Jaggi Vasudev, former cricketers Javagal Srinath and Anil Kumble are among the politicians, ministers and celebrities to have joined the app. In addition, the Union IT Ministry, India Post and the Niti Aayog are among the government departments to have an account on the app.

What is the significance of top political personalities joining Koo App?

The fact that several ministers and politicians are putting their weight behind the Indian microblogging site, especially at a time when the world’s largest platform in this segment has not responded in the most favourable terms to the Indian government’s demands, is a key indicator of the government’s willingness to push an alternative to the social networking platform. In a stern message to the American firm, the Union IT Ministry had noted that Twitter was an intermediary and “they are obliged to obey the directions of the government. Refusal to do so will invite penal action”. The company was told that non-compliance with the government’s demands could also lead to action being taken under the Section 69A (3) of the IT Act, which could potentially have the senior officials of the company in prison for up to seven years, in addition to a financial penalty.
 

All union ministers are ‘kooing’ from kooapp now and after a year so or if this app becomes popular they will ban twitter in India ! 
Already many people started using it in India  !

twitter is not banning accounts as requested by central govt so they are promoting kooapp now & if twitter gets banned in India like tiktok it will be big blow to twitter for sure 

[dewarist]

"Certified" AatmaNirbhar App

 

[Ryzen_renoir]

Unless they ban twitter outright , it will never go anywhere . 

China was pretty sucessful in banning American social media giants , now they have their own versions of social media . Weibo is pretty good , a lot more advanced than twitter I must say .

[sunnam]

deenemma. ee lafffoot BJP gaallu. tik tok ban sesi rapuso app annaru. adi dobbindi. final ga edi ledu ippudu.

now twitter ki opposite koo app anta.

 

ee laffoot MOdi gaadu aa munda amit shah ki edi chetha kaadu. sannasi naakodukulu fake propaganda tho bathikesthunnaru...

[r2d2]

[Dosakai]

They must have called it Poo.. goes well with the color palate they've chosen for the app.

[jawaani_jaaneman]

ie media batch ki apudo ipudo isonti jhalaks iyakapothey, they will be soon running parallel governments..

free speech anta..democracy anta...stocks matram perugutune vuntayi...

[dewarist]

 

Just now, jawaani_jaaneman said:

ie media batch ki apudo ipudo isonti jhalaks iyakapothey, they will be soon running parallel governments..

free speech anta..democracy anta...stocks matram perugutune vuntayi...

 

[dasari4kntr]

 

[ranku_mogudu]

3 hours ago, sunnam said:

deenemma. ee lafffoot BJP gaallu. tik tok ban sesi rapuso app annaru. adi dobbindi. final ga edi ledu ippudu.

now twitter ki opposite koo app anta.

 

ee laffoot MOdi gaadu aa munda amit shah ki edi chetha kaadu. sannasi naakodukulu fake propaganda tho bathikesthunnaru...

rapuso naa... takatak anukunta kadha bro

[NiranjanGaaru]

Ltt

[JackSeal]

TikTok ne ban chesi entho mandhi TikTok aunties/uncles creativity ne champesaru... eppati varaku TikTok tho potipadagala app raledu... roposo/chingari they are all bull s#it apps ... PUBG ban chesi FAUG atama nirbhar game leg/ladkah war zone types annaru adhi emindho evadki theledu

[Telugodura456]

13 minutes ago, JackSeal said:

TikTok ne ban chesi entho mandhi TikTok aunties/uncles creativity ne champesaru... eppati varaku TikTok tho potipadagala app raledu... roposo/chingari they are all bull s#it apps ... PUBG ban chesi FAUG atama nirbhar game leg/ladkah war zone types annaru adhi emindho evadki theledu

Indian rule prakaram first delhi based north brahmin/bania comfortable ga vundale..allu comfort ga vunna tharuvatah they will let telugu pilaka,cammode, teddy to be comfort - alla tharuvatha others.

[yemdoing]

china was right all along.. their own map service, search service, social etc....

baidu..

[galiraju]

3 hours ago, Dosakai said:

They must have called it Poo.. goes well with the color palate they've chosen for the app.

how are you sexless movies dosakai..lol