Koo: India’s Twitter alternative with global ambitions
India’s Koo expects to surpass Twitter’s 25 million-strong user base in the country. …
But according to Nikhil Pahwa, a digital rights activist, there is a clear rationale for Mr Modi’s government to promote Koo as a homegrown, even “nationalist” alternative to Twitter, so that it can create a “soft landing spot” for itself, in case the need to ban Twitter arises in the future.