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Twitter-rival Koo surpasses 40 lakh users in a jiffy | Details

Homegrown Twitter-like platform Koo has garnered over 10 lakh new users in just one week, surpassing the 40 lakh-figure in nearly 10 months of its arrival, as Twitter was caught in crosshairs with the Indian government over its direction to remove nearly 1,400 controversial accounts. Feb 18, 2021
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Twitter explains why it withheld 250 accounts in India [read here]

The social networking site said that certain accounts tweeting anti-government material were considered to be inciting "genocide", which is a grave threat to public order, and therefore the IT Ministry ordered to block them under Section 69A of the IT Act. Feb 1, 2021