KOO APP-NEW BLOG AFTER A LONG TIME

As the Indian government remains locked in a battle with Twitter over its demand for suspension of accounts which, it alleges, has spread misinformation regarding the farmers’ protest, government officials and ministries have set up accounts on an Indian micro-blogging platform called Koo. It functions just as Twitter does, but Koo provides users with the option of writing text in several Indian languages. Koo was one of the winners of a competition that was launched by the Union ministry of electronics and information technology in July last year to find alternatives to Chinese apps. Koo had won under the “social” category along with two other apps. Prime Minister Narendra Modi had mentioned Koo while announcing the winners on his Mann Ki Baat radio address in August. However, the app didn’t quite make it big until now. Modi, though, is yet to join Koo and remains active on Twitter. This February, after Twitter refused to ban the accounts the govt. asked it to, several ministers made a beeline for the Indian alternative. Today, commerce minister Piyush Goyal, law and IT minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, environment minister Prakash Javadekar, Karnataka chief minister B.S. Yediyurappa, Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, member of parliament Tejasvi Surya and BJP IT cell head Amit Malviya are among some of the popular politicians who have joined the platform. Several government departments, like the ministry of electronics, ministry of railways, India Post, MyGovIndia, Digital India and NITI Aayog, too, are on Koo. Some media houses, like PIB India, OTV News, NewsX TV, Republic TV have also joined.

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