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As you all are aware that use of Chinese apps is increasing day by day. With the growing tensions with china leading to ban of various apps, gave a growth sign for App development in india. Koo was one of these applications which cam e into light. To know about how Indian Koo App becoming competitor of Twitter, read this post till the end.
Amidst it, PM Narender Modi has launched a program Atmanirbhar Bharat (or self-reliant india) App Innovation Challenge. In this app challenge many app developers participated.
Government announced results for over 9 categories of mobile applications. In total, there were 24 winners of this app innovation challenge. As many as 6940 entries were registered in this challenge. All the apps were assessed on the parameters of robustness, scalability, ease of use and security. The first three position holders were given attractive cash prizes also. Koo app(india’s Twitter) which was launched in May 2020 has attained runners postion in social networking category.
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What is Koo App?
Koo App is very similar to US based App- Twitter.. In this, things can be posted, as well as photographs and videos can be attached. Apart from this, you can also interact with people by commenting anf following them. In this, you get the option of three media- audio, video and text.
The company has launched Tamil, Kannada, and Telugu languages in addition to Hindi in this platform. In future, the company will also include languages like Marathi, Gujarati, Punjabi, Assamese, Bangla, Malayalam, Oriya in this platform. The Koo App has been made available for both Android and iOS.
In this platform of the company, many people are already associated with politics, news publication, celebrity. Many famous persons are also connected here like Former Indian cricketer Anil Kumble from the Koo app, Renuka Shahane, Ashutosh Shahane and Dharma Guru Sadguru from the film world, Karnataka Deputy CM Dr. CN Ashwath Narayan.
The closure of the Taman Chinese app has opened up a lot of opportunities in the app world in India. PM Modi has inspired the youth generation to create Made in India apps by giving a slogan of being self-reliant. Within 6 days of the ban on Chinese apps, India's startup community has launched several video sharing and lifestyle apps, whose users have grown by 5 times.
Koo is already available in android and ios for download. Its features like those of Twitter make it beneficial in long run.
Koo App: Founders
- Aprameya Radhakrishna
- Mayank Bidawatka
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The idea of making the Koo App- India’s Twitter.
The company making it says that there are only 10% people in our country who speak English. There are about one hundred crore people, a major part, in the 138 million population of the country, who do not know English. These people definitely speak one of the hundreds of languages in the country. These too are now accessing the internet through smartphones. Ku gives these people freedom of expression in their mother tongue.
Both the founders launched the Indian-language knowledge sharing app 'Vocal' in 2017. At this time, the vokals allow users to ask and answer questions in 11 languages.
Koo App: One week after launch, there were one lakh users
Talking about it, in March this year it was launched by the incomparable Radhakrishna and Mayank Bidwatka officially. More than one lakh people had downloaded this platform only a week after its launch. At present, this figure has crossed one million. On this platform, you can place your talk in words containing 400 characters. If you want, you can also communicate via a minute of audio or video.
On august 30 PM Modi praised this application in mann ki baat. He added that this Micro-Blogging platform is a very good way we can communicate with each other via text, audio and video. The best part of using Koo is,People can share their opinions in their mother tongue.
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Koo App: How to download and use Koo?
You can download it from your play store or app store. Once downloaded, allow the permissions it asks for. The home page has 3 tabs- feed, people and new. After home page, it has a koo search option. You can search hashtags there. In the next tab you can search any topic or person. Fourth tab is that of messeges. You can connect with like-minded people here. Last tab is of notifications. You receive activities of your following persons in notifications.
Just as in Twitter, there is a plus (+) button in bottom part of the page where you can create Your Koo.
On the top left corner you can see your display picture. Click on it and you can edit your profile from there.
Koo App: Take on Twitter?
Koo App interface is very similar to Twitter. It provides a smooth experience to its users as it is in regional languages and also easy to use. Like Twitter option of RE-
TWEETING, Koo has the feature of RE-KOO. Also it is attaining popularily with great speed. Many famous celebrities have already joined this platform. Moreover you can add your profession in your Koo profile and promote the same with the help of Koo community. So there are great chances of Koo App taking over Twitter in the coming years.
Conclusion
Friends, I hope you have now understood about Koo App and how Indian Koo App becoming competitor of Twitter. If you have not joined Koo App yet, then join it today only. By doing this, you can be a part of “Make in India” Programme. Also share this article with your friends to encourage the download of Koo App.
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