Koo is a microblogging platform offering a Twitter-like experience to the users. Joining Koo is free and anyone can join it. Just like Twitter people can talk about various subjects and express their opinions on posts by other users. One of the biggest highlights of the platform is that it is made in India and its servers are also in India. That means the data of the users will always be in India not in some other country. Koo supports various Indian languages.
Currently, Koo supports five languages i.e., Hindi, English, Kannada, Tamil, and Telugu. Soon it will support seven more Indian languages i.e., Marathi, Bangla, Gujarati, Malayalam, Oriya, Punjabi, Assamese.
Users can choose from any local language to communicate and express their thoughts. The app was released in March 2020 and it has also won the Indian government’s Digital India AatmaNirbhar Bharat Innovate Challenge.
The Koo app is now available on both Android and iOS devices. It also has a web version similar to Twitter. The good part about Koo is that the user can write up to 400 characters whereas Twitter only allows 280 characters.
Koo – Not an Alternative to Twitter
The app is being promoted as a popular alternative to Twitter by top politicians and leaders in the country. The move comes after the American microblogging and social networking service displayed defiance against pulling off certain Twitter handles that were deemed incendiary by the Government.
Koo is rapidly gaining rise in popularity. As a result, more and more Indians, even people from other countries also have been switching to the platform and it currently has around five million active users. This number of users is growing very fast and in a few months, it will have a billion users.
In March 2020, Aprameya Radhakrishna and Mayank Bidawatka founded Koo.
How Koo is Better than Twitter?
Both the applications are similar in many ways, but there is a lot of difference between Koo and Twitter. Check out how is Koo different from Twitter below:
Completely Indian
Koo is an Indian social media application that has been created and developed in India by Indians.
Support for Indian Languages
The best and most liked feature by the Indians of the Koo is that it supports many Indian languages. Twitter does support all international languages but doesn’t support all Indian local languages.
Chronological Post Arrangement
Your posts don’t disappear on Koo. The posts of the users appear chronologically on this platform. Whereas, Facebook, Twitter, etc., only show the most popular posts on the top. Users on the Koo may see the posts of the people and brands they follow on Koo in chronological order by the time and date of their publishing. User’s feed remains cleaner and they only see posts from people who they follow.
The Feed
The social media feed of Koo is very different from Twitter. There are two sections in it – ‘feed’ and ‘people’. In the feed section, the users can check out the posts by the people they are following on the platform.
Whereas, in the ‘People’ section, the users can check out what the popular people on the platform are discussing. In the ‘People’ section users can also select topics and follow users that are experts in those topics. There is also a trends section that users can go to explore posts by politicians, social workers, ministers, and popular right-wing personalities.
Ads Free Microblogging Platform
The Koo is cleaner and you won’t see any irritating, irrelevant ads, or sponsored posts like Twitter. That simply means you can really enjoy the microblogging experience on this new Indian application.
Available for All Devices
Another good thing about this platform is that you can use it on any device be it a mobile device, a tablet, desktop, or laptop. To register yourself on the platform you only need an email or a phone number.
Conclusion
For social interaction, we are all dependent on foreign channels like Google, Facebook, Snapchat, Telegram, Instagram, WhatsApp. We should support applications made in India so that they can compete with those global social media platforms. It’s free to join, so join it today and support a made in India initiative. Register today!
