Koo to foray into 22 Indian languages this year

Indian microblogging platform Koo, which surged in popularity following Twitter’s stand off with the Indian government over allegedly provocative farmer protest posts, will foray into all official 22 Indian languages this year, co-founder and CEO Aprameya Radhakrishna told ET.

Radhakrishna said the company is also working on new features such as ‘multi lingual’ Kooing and that the company wants to take Indian technology to the world.

“We have been growing steadily and are close to five million downloads and our monthly active users would be around half of that number. Our largest communities are in English and Hindi followed by Kannada, Marathi and Telugu, but we are planning to go deeper into Indian languages,” said Radhakrishna and added: “The voice of the Indian language speaker is absent on the internet and that is our primary thing to solve. We are coming up with new features. One of the things is multi lingual Kooing, which would enable users to post content in two languages through auto translation. This is a very unique Indian need and the first time ever that a social media platform would be doing this. We will be in all official 22 Indian languages this year.”