The renowned micro-blogging site Twitter is in a tussle with the Union IT ministry over blocking of some accounts. While that is happening, a new Desi homemade version of Twitter titled Koo App has been gaining popularity among the masses.
The Koo App was co-founded by entrepreneurs Aprameya Radhakrishna and Mayank Bidwatka. Koo comes under Bombenite Technologies which has received clunch of investors from Blume Ventures, Accel Partners India, Kalaari Capital, 3one4 Capital etc.
The app was launched in 2020 but started gaining popularity recently after winning the government’s Atmanirbhar App Innovation Challenge. Some other recipients of the award include Zoho and Chingari, an app similar to the banned Tiktok. The challenge was launched by the centre on the light of banning apps which were alleged to have Chinese links. The Koo App further started Gaining momentum after it was mentioned by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Man Ki Baat Address.
Members of Parliament Tejasvi Surya and Shobha Karandlaje, former cricketers Javagal Srinath and Anil Kumble, Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal, Law & IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, Isha Foundation’s Founder Jaggi Vasudev are just few names of the stalwarts who have been flocking this app. Apart from famous politicians and personalities several Government departments like the Union IT Ministry, India Post and the Niti Aayog are also users of Koo app.
Significance
With Twitter non-complying with Union IT Ministry’s order to ban certain accounts and several Union Government officials publicly endorsing the Koo App, it indicates that the Government is willing to go an extra mile to teach Twitter a lesson. Twitter hasn’t been paying heed to Government’s Demands and this made Government sent a strongly worded message to Twitter stating that “they are obliged to obey the directions of the government. Refusal to do so will invite penal action”.
The US-born Microblogging site also risks their senior officials facing jail term under the Section 69A (3) of the IT Act for non-compliance with the Government’s demands.
The kerfuffle would continue proceeding as Koo app’s installations would continue soaring. Twitter needs to take a definite stand or it stands a risk of losing its user base in India.
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