Koo, India’s Twitter-like social media app, is shutting down: Here’s why

Koo, the Indian microblogging platform created to rival X/Twitter is shutting down. The social media network gained popularity in 2021 when the Indian government was in a scuffle with X/Twitter over the non-removal of some content, with several ministers and departments of the Union government flocking to Koo.

In a recent post on LinkedIn, the company’s co-founder Mayank Bidawatka said that they were exploring partnerships with “multiple larger internet companies, conglomerates and media houses, but these talks didn’t yield the outcome” and that “a couple of them changed priority almost close to signing.”