Explainer: The Indian Twitter rival staging a Koo
By Sankalp Phartiyal
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Indian social-media app Koo is witnessing a surge in recognition, fuelled by politicians and others flocking to it after U.S. rival Twitter Inc refused to watch a authorities order to dam certain content material materials on its platform.
Twitter has locked horns with New Delhi this month over the order to remove higher than 1,100 accounts and posts which the federal authorities says are spreading misinformation about farmer protests in direction of new agricultural authorized pointers.
The dispute escalated on Wednesday when Twitter talked about it did not completely alter to some requests as a result of it believed they weren’t in step with Indian regulation.
Koo talked about downloads had surged 10-fold to date two days to over 3 million. Meanwhile #kooapp was the very best Twitter sample in India on …