CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -Koo is an Indian microblogging and social networking service, based in Bengaluru, India. As of November 2022, the company is valued at over $275 million.

Detailed explanation-2: -Koo–the Made-in-India rival of Twitter–has offered to migrate all historic tweets of any Twitter user willing to shift to its platform that will continue to not charge users for verification badge, its co-founder and CEO Aprameya Radhakrishna said.

Detailed explanation-3: -Koo, which launched in India in March 2020, has more than 50 million downloads and is actively utilised by more than 7, 500 eminent personalities across various fields, including politics, sports, media, entertainment, spirituality, art, and culture.

Detailed explanation-4: -Koo, the multilingual Indian microblogging platform, has garnered over 50 million downloads since it was launched in 2020. It claims to be the world’s second largest microblogging site, after US competitor Twitter.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Indian microblogging platform can be a substitute to Elon Musk-owned Twitter if it manages to garner a significant user base, and then monetise. But is Koo ready in terms of privacy and security to go global?