{"id":829355,"date":"2024-07-04T10:29:20","date_gmt":"2024-07-04T04:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=829355"},"modified":"2024-07-04T10:31:43","modified_gmt":"2024-07-04T05:01:43","slug":"koo-indias-twitter-like-social-media-app-is-shutting-down-heres-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/07\/04\/koo-indias-twitter-like-social-media-app-is-shutting-down-heres-why\/","title":{"rendered":"Koo, India\u2019s Twitter-like social media app, is shutting down: Here\u2019s why"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>In a recent post on LinkedIn, the company\u2019s co-founder Mayank Bidawatka said that they were exploring partnerships with \u201cmultiple larger internet companies, conglomerates and media houses, but these talks didn\u2019t yield the outcome\u201d and that \u201ca couple of them changed priority almost close to signing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2019s co-founder Mayank Bidawatka said that they were exploring partnerships with \u201cmultiple larger internet companies, conglomerates and media houses, but these talks didn\u2019t yield the outcome\u201d and that \u201ca couple of them changed priority almost close to signing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-829355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=829355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=829355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=829355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=829355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}