New Delhi: Homegrown microblogging platform Koo is going global and finding more success in Brazil. Now, Brazilian President Lula da Silva has also joined Koo and has over 1 lakh followers in just a couple of days. He had over 50,000 followers in only four hours of joining the platform, said Koo co-founder Mayank Bidawatka in a post on LinkedIn.
President da Silva joined Koo about two weeks after the platform launched in Brazil around 18 November.
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.
On Thursday, Koo co-founder Mayank Bidawatka wrote on LinkedIn saying, “Welcoming the President of Brazil on Koo. It’s the start of world leaders joining the platform. He got 57K+ followers in 4 hours of joining and 20K+ likes and 7K+ comments on his first post.”
President da Silva is among the first world leaders to join Koo, making the Indian platform achieve significant user engagement just like Twitter that has more governments and state leaders using it to communicate directly with the public.
A quick search on Koo shows no results for a verified profile of ‘Narendra Modi’, but there are several verified profiles of other popular leaders such as Yogi Adityanath , Nitin Gadkari, Smriti Irani, and Ashok Gehlot.
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