Koo’s opportunity, Twitter’s problem

The government of India wants to rebuild the country’s Internet ecosystem. What seemed like a far-fetched idea some years back isn’t unthinkable anymore.

Koo, the call of the cuckoo, also a multi-language social media app, has become all the rage in India, being propped up as a local competitor to Twitter. 

This is after the app, a Twitter clone really, positioned itself as a Made-in-India alternative to Twitter, an American corporation headed by Jack Dorsey, who has been projected by those leaning to the right as a sympathizer of the left. Like most pretty pitches, that’s only a small part of Koo’s sudden appeal. In the last few weeks, Koo has also positioned itself as a platform which promises to uphold freedom of …