Indian microblogging platform Koo seems to be benefiting from Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter. According to the company's co-founder Mayank Bidwatka, Koo has now become the second-largest micro-blogging platform in the world. The number of its users has crossed 50 million (50 million).
Aprameya Radhakrishna, CEO and Co-Founder of Koo, said that in just 2.5 years, we are today the second largest micro-blog in the world. Our users have trusted us since our launch.
According to the information given on the company's website, apart from India, the Ku app is currently available in more than 200 countries including America, the United Kingdom, Singapore, Canada, Nigeria, UAE, Algeria, Nepal and Iran. Ku is available in 10 languages.
Koo was launched in March 2020 as a native micro-blogging app. Koo is made by Bombinet Technologies Pvt Ltd, Bangalore. The app has been designed by India's own Aprameya Radhakrishna and Mayank Bidwatka.
Twitter has 220 million active users in the world. It has 76 million users in America and 23 million users in India. Around 500 million tweets are done every day around the world. Twitter was launched in July 2006. It was founded by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Evan Williams and Biz Stone.
Micro-blogging site Mastodon has also benefited from charging for blue subscriptions on Twitter. The number of users of Mastodon is also increasing very fast. But, in terms of users, it is far behind these sites. According to the Play Store, Mastodon currently has only 5 lakh users.