Amid Standoff With Twitter, Centre to Use Home-Grown Koo for Public Communication Before Tweeting
16-February-2021

India's microblogging platform Koo, rival to Twitter, is likely to be used by the Centre as their primary port of communication with the public, top government officials aware of the development informed News18 on condition of anonymity.

Important updates, notifications and announcements will be shared 1-3 hours before on Koo and then on Twitter, said sources.

This comes amid the standoff between Twitter and the Centre over the removal of several accounts related to farmers' protests, who were trending the hashtag on farmers� genocide.

Meanwhile, the Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY), the Union Ministry of Railways and some other government departments have already set up accounts on the application.

In an interview to Moneycontrol last week, founder of Koo, said his platform is all for freedom of speech but will follow law of the land.

"We are built for freedom of speech. Our primary goal is to make sure that everybody who is in India has the right to express themselves," Aprameya Radhakrishna, co-founder and chief executive officer of Koo, said.

�While that happens of course there will be exceptions like a threat to life. Like one person inciting violence or threatening to take his own life. So being a company registered in India, we will abide by the law of the land,� he said.