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India’s Koo is considering entering Nigerian market after the African country suspended Twitter on Friday. The ban came after Twitter deleted a tweet from President Muhammadu Buhari’s account for violating its rules.
Aprameya Radhakrishna, co-founder of Koo tweeted the company’s stand today.
@kooindia is available in Nigeria. We're thinking of enabling the local languages there too. What say? pic.twitter.com/NUia1h0xUi
— Aprameya R (@aprameya) June 5, 2021
Koo is a yellow-coloured Twitter lookalike, was founded by Mr Radhakrishna, an Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad alumnus, and Mayank Bidawatka in 2020. It aims to gather over 100 million users in the “next couple of years” in India.
Koo’s founders have hard sold to India-based operations and willingness to follow instructions from the government and law enforcement. Something that Twitter is finding difficult to deal with. However, Koo has faced concerns about data privacy and security in the past.
Twitter has a history of giving a platform to dissent, that has created problems with governments across the world, like Nigeria. It is giving an opportunity to the pro-establishments like Koo.
Twitter on Wednesday had riled the Nigerian authorities after it deleted a remark by the country President’s oh his Twitter account. The president had referred to the country’s civil war in a warning about the recent unrest in the southeast.
After 2 days, the Information Ministry of Nigeria took out a press release suspending Twitter ‘indefinitely’.