Koo founders Aprameya Radhakrishna and Mayank Bidawatka wrote in a LinkedIn post that since talks for a strategic partner fell through, they have decided to cease operations.
Co-founders Aprameya Radhakrishna & Mayank Bidawatka said the platform will discontinue its services as partnership talks failed with multiple larger internet firms, media houses.
Koo's co-founder Mayank Bidawatka said about 20% of the platform's users actively create content on the app and the ChatGPT integration could help increase that figure.
Some don't care for it, others say it's a 'good backup for India'. According to CEO Aprameya Radhakrishna, parties can use it to reach wider audience in their native language.
The banned handle was used to tweet updates about its process of designating user accounts of eminence with a yellow verification badge, similar to Twitter’s blue verification badge.
Koo became the top app in Brazil just 48 hours after it was launched in the South American country of over 160 million internet users, the company announced on 21 November.
When Kangana Ranaut faced a permanent ban on Twitter last year, she turned to Koo. Aprameya Radhakrishna, Koo’s CEO, tells ThePrint why he doesn’t believe in such permanent bans.
The 16-month-old Koo allows users to send tweet-like posts in English & 7 Indian languages. It saw about 85% of users join since February, when Twitter’s disputes with Modi govt escalated.
The strategic drift currently being witnessed runs the risk of confirming the doubters’ view lurking on both sides: that the US is an unreliable power, and India is a reluctant partner.
In the latest budget, the FDI limit was increased to 100 percent, but most foreign companies are not buying such large stakes in the Indian insurance sector.
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