Modi govt provides a good slap to Twitter and promotes Indian-made Koo app and it’s taking India by storm

The Union authorities is steadily raking up the stress on microblogging platform Twitter to get off its excessive horse and begin complying with the Indian guidelines and laws. However, sensing some resistance and a hesitancy to go away the left-liberal cabal from Twitter, the Modi authorities has now began aggressively selling its ‘Made-in-India, Aatmanirbhar’ microblogging app named ‘Koo’ as a substitute for Twitter.The Koo app has already been obtain greater than 1,000,000 occasions and boasts of a number of excessive profile Cabinet ministers and ministries which have shifted to the app very quickly. Union Minister Piyush Goyal on Tuesday introduced on Twitter that he had migrated to the ‘Aatmanirbhar’ platform.“I am now on Koo. Connect with me on this Indian micro-blogging platform for real-time, exciting and exclusive updates. Let us exchange our thoughts and ideas on Koo.” tweeted Piyush Goyal.I’m now on Koo.Connect with me on this Indian micro-blogging platform for real-time, thrilling and unique updates.Let us change our ideas and concepts on Koo.📱 Join me: https://t.co/zIL6YI0epM pic.twitter.com/REGioTdMfm— Piyush Goyal (@PiyushGoyal) February 9, 2021Ravi Shankar Prasad, the Electronics and IT Minister within the Modi authorities, too has a verified deal with on Koo, and so do the departments he handles, together with Telecom, IT, and India Post. Other authorities departments such because the Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs, and MyGovIndia, are additionally current on Koo.Twitter partially complied with the govt. orders, so it is not getting banned. The govt ministries shifting to Koo spooked it I suppose :)— Gabbbar (@GabbbarSingh) February 10, 2021Koo was based in March 2020, as an inclusive micro-blogging platform in Indian languages the place individuals from throughout totally different areas in India can specific themselves of their mom tongue. The indisputable fact that the platform is on the market in a number of languages corresponding to Hindi, Kannada, Telugu, Bengali, and so on is its largest USP and driving the vernacular inhabitants to the platform.If PM Modi or over 50 Mil customers be part of Koo, world leaders, businessmen, celebs will arrive with int’nal customers. A big chunk of disillusioned Americans, Aus and France might be the primary ones as they’re all preventing Big Tech. So don’t be concerned, Koo will not isolate us from the world.— Shubhangi Sharma (@ItsShubhangi) February 9, 2021As a part of its Series A funding, Koo managed to boost $4.1 million, solely final week. Infosys veteran Mohandas Pai’s 3one4 Capital is the latest investor on board. The app additionally gained second place within the Aatmanirbhar App Challenge introduced by the Indian authorities. It was additionally named Google Play Store’s Best Daily Essential App for 2020 and bought a particular point out by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his Mann Ki Baat handle.Like any utility that’s nonetheless in its infancy, the Koo app has its share of glitches but when the customers persist and proceed to throng the platform in massive numbers, the minor kinks might be sorted very quickly.Thank you and congrats. We want to see Koo develop huge with a optimistic impact on our democracy, permitting free speech holding in thoughts the sensitivities of Indians. Do Maintain your aatmanirbhar trait. Wish you the perfect. https://t.co/tTPWSQNtuf— Shubhangi Sharma (@ItsShubhangi) February 9, 2021Since the end result of the US Presidential elections, the massive tech firms together with Twitter have had their confidence bolstered by the succession of a left-leaning Democrat occasion, as they banned the previous US President — thereby setting a precedent that had by no means been set earlier than.The Indian authorities quietly took observe of the very fact, and to keep away from any comparable scenario the place Twitter may act because the Judge, Jury, and executioner — began making ready a contingency plan. The exodus of Twitteratis to Koo is a well-planned, elaborate transfer to maintain Twitter in examine and concurrently create a platform that may give competitors to Twitter in an in any other case monopolistic market.Reported by TFI earlier, the Modi authorities had requested Twitter to dam 1,178 accounts that have been related to Khalistani sympathizers or backed by Pakistan. The authorities additionally confirmed its displeasure over the social media large’s resolution to revive 250 accounts that the federal government requested it to droop after a vicious hashtag towards PM Modi. While Twitter did initially ban such accounts, inside hours, they have been restored after the Left-leaning platform took it upon itself to adjudicate on the validity of such tweets.Read extra: Lookie! Twitter – the largest bully of the web is crying as a result of the concern of the Modi authorities is realIn the previous few years, Twitter has turn out to be a protected haven for the left-liberal cabal the place the conservatives or the RW is silenced on the drop of hat. However, the LW is given a free rein to espouse its utopian nonsense and concurrently egg the inhabitants to hunt violence and bloodlust within the type of protests and riots. The Red Fort siege on Republic Day turned part of an even bigger conspiracy as a result of Twitter enabled the LW and Khalistani parts to unfold the hatred on the platform, unchecked and unabated.The transfer by the Union authorities to drop the hammer on Twitter has come at nearly the proper time. With General elections nonetheless greater than three years away, it’s going to take a while to self-discipline Twitter however the course of has begun with the promotion of its India-made different Koo and it’s off to a stable begin.