Koo eyes more users amid Twitter backlash

Homegrown startup Koo – often called the Indian alternative to Twitter – sees the backlash against the Musk-led microblogging site as a great opportunity to expand its presence in India and abroad, its co-founder Aprameya Radhakrishna told DH on the sidelines of the GTA summit on Tuesday.

“We see this as a great opportunity to not just be a microblogging platform for India but also for the rest of the world,” Radhakrishna said.

Koo, which lets people send out posts in as many as 10 Indian languages, said many English-speaker Twitter users have started looking for an alternative to the site after Elon Musk took the helm of Twitter and made many hasty decisions including charging for verification.