Koo ‘wants’ to develop in the Nigerian market after Twitter’s suspension

New Delhi: The Indian Social Networking Company Koo announced on Saturday that it would be surgery in Nigeria, a day after the “Unlimited” state was suspended Twitter.
“@Kooindia is available in Nigeria. We are thinking of allowing local languages ​​there too. What is said?” Koo Co-Founder apparatus Radhakrishna wrote on Twitter.
He added that the platform was interested in making a breakthrough in the Nigerian market and that Koo would obey local laws from each country operating.
“Nigeria is similar to India in terms of language diversity. It has hundreds of regional languages. Koo has a global view and will definitely allow micro-blogging in the countries that need it most. We have built a platform that can be scaled and while we still improve the product, it is It is available for use in several countries today, “said the Bidawatka Co-Founder to Ti.
The Ministry of Information and Culture of the Federal Nigeria has announced that it will suspend the microblogging platform operation in the country. In a statement distributed on Twitter, the ministry said it was “suspended, unlimited, microblogging operation and social networking services”.
Unlimited suspensions occur two days after Twitter removed the “Offensive” tweet by President Muhammadu Buhari for violating the rules.
Twitter’s deadlock with the Nigerian government began in October 2020, after Jack Dorsey’s CEO has supported the anti-government protest #endar, a series of peaceful protests against the country’s special anti-robbery (SARS). The squad has been accused of brutality to citizens. “Donations through #bitcoin to help #endarsar,” Dorsey had tweeted on October 15 last year.
Koo, founded by Radhakrishna and Mayank Bidayatka, launched last year to allow users to express themselves and be involved on the platform in Indian. It supports many languages ​​including Hindi, Telugu and Bengali, among others.
Koo has more than 60 lakh users, and recently collected $ 30 million (around Rs 218 Crore) in the funding round led by Global Tiger.
Koo’s popularity in India peaked in the center of Clarion’s call to expand the Homegrown digital platform ecosystem. This platform has seen a massive growth in its user base for the past few months after the minister of trade unions and the government department supports the Microblogging Homegrown platform, following the Spat with Twitter.
In particular, the Radhakrishna post on Saturday coincided with the Indian government that issued a notification to Twitter, giving it one last chance to “immediately” obeyed the new rules. Twitter has also been warned that failure to obey the norm will lead to the platform of loss of liberation from the obligation.
Koo had previously said that it had obeyed IT rules and had shared the details needed as the government was searched for this problem.