Koo’s founders sense big opportunity in Twitter’s turmoil

Remember that period early last year when WhatsApp users started abandoning the app and flocking to Signal and Telegram following WhatsApp’s change in its privacy policy? Today, with Twitter in turmoil and advertisers turning their backs to it, Aprameya Radhakrishna and Mayank Bidawatka are sensing a similar opportunity for the microblogging site Koo that they founded in 2019.

It’s not a vain hope. They are already the world’s No. 2 microblogging site, with 50 million downloads. The others like Gab, Truth Social, Mastodon, Gettr, Parler are at about 5 million downloads or less. Technologically, Koo looks very good, especially in comparison to competitors, and has features almost nobody else does. On Google Play, it has a better rating (4. 2 out of 5) than almost all competitors – Mastodon is at 2. 4, Truth Social at 3. 6.