Amid Twitter’s ‘mess’, Koo ought to take it over, says Piyush Goyal

Union Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal stated Koo, the Indian microblogging platform, ought to take over Twitter at an occasion on Saturday.

“On daily basis after I see what’s going on with Twitter and the mess they’re in, I am so comfortable I am one of many first to affix Koo. And I believe Koo ought to take over Twitter. That is the energy of Indian entrepreneurs and our startups and and I completely have little question that these robust occasions the world is going through at this time is a chance that India shouldn’t miss,” stated Goyal at ET Startup Awards’ occasion.

Goyal’s remarks come shut on the heels of Koo co-founder saying the agency is concerned about hiring individuals laid off by Elon Musk after he acquired Twitter. Twitter has both laid off workers or individuals have walked out voluntarily from the corporate within the latest previous. 

The co-founder of Koo, Mayank Bidawatka tweeted: “Very unhappy to see #RIPTwitter and associated # to this taking place. We’ll rent a few of these Twitter ex-employees as we maintain increasing and lift our bigger, subsequent spherical. They should work the place their expertise is valued. Microblogging is about individuals energy. Not suppression.”

The homegrown microblogging platform Koo is all set to go world. Earlier this week, Aprameya Radhakrishna, the co-founder, and chief government of Koo, confirmed that Koo will quickly launch in america.

Koo was launched in March 2020 and the platform stated it had change into the second largest multi-lingual microblogging platform accessible to the world.

Since taking up Twitter, billionaire Elon Musk has set in movement huge modifications, sacking workers and speaking of levying a $8 cost for ‘verified’ handles.

Koo, alternatively, gives Aadhaar-based self-verification and a free-of-cost yellow verification tag for eminent individuals.

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