India’s Twitter alternative with global ambitions. Koo expects to surpass Twitter’s 25 million-strong user base in India this year according to co-founder Mayank Bidawatka . Koo was thrust into the spotlight last year as an alternative to Twitter amid a row between the Indian government and the US microblogging platform. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government asked the platform to block allegedly incendiary accounts – Twitter complied initially and then restored them, citing “insufficient justification”. The face-off continued as the government threatened legal action against the company’s employees in India. Can Koo beat twitter ?

