Social networking Koo app plans on coming into the US amid Twitter fiasco: Report
- ByStartupStory | November 17, 2022
Koo App, a multi-lingual micro blogging platform, is harboring worldwide growth targets searching on the roller-coaster tendencies at Elon Musk-headed Twitter.
Bengaluru-primarily based totally Koo app is constructing capabilities and gear for the platform to attract a worldwide audience, and could to start with the goal of the United States. As a part of the development, which became first suggested with the aid of using The Economic Times, the platform will now no longer rate customers to get confirmed and plans on onboarding worldwide leaders. Apart from the United States, Koo is likewise trying to tap into Indonesia, Bangladesh, Africa and West Asia, Malaysia, and The Philippines.
This comes as Elon Musk rolled out plans for Twitter to rate customers to get confirmed, after which later needed to make a transient U-activate Twitter Blue as parody bills created havoc. A question despatched to Aprameya Radhakrishna, Co-founder and CEO, Koo app, did now no longer elicit any reaction until the publishing of this story.
Aprameya, who co-based TaxiforSure (received with the aid of using Ola Cabs), commenced running withinside the local language app area after beginning Vokal, in 2016, together along with his former TaxiforSure consultant Mayank Bidawatka. While the Quora-like audio question-answering platform attracted a gap crowd, Koo (commenced in 2020) attracted a bigger audience.
The microblogging platform, which operates in Hindi, English, Punjabi, Bangla and Kannada, amongst 10 Indian languages, took off in 2020. In the midst of over 50 Chinese apps being banned and the range of customers coming on-line popping up exponentially because of the pandemic-led lockdowns, Koo noticed a possibility to draw many customers. Politicians along with Smriti Irani, Nitin Gadkari and Ravi Shankar Prasad, cricketer Virat Kohli, and actor Tiger Shroff, amongst others, have confirmed Koo profiles.
A few days ago, Koo app additionally crossed 50 million downloads.
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