Govt responds to Twitter blogpost — on homegrown app Koo

After Twitter put out its blogpost on Wednesday, the Union Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology’s first response was on Koo, a homegrown microblogging platform.

In a koo – term for a post on the platform – the ministry said the IT Secretary was to “engage with” senior officials of Twitter, “upon the request of Twitter” and a blogpost “prior to this engagement is unusual”.

More than half-an-hour later, the ministry tweeted the same text from its official Twitter handle.