Koo app shut down due to financial difficulties and an inability to compete effectively with larger social media platforms like Twitter.
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AjayEdupuganti
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Koo shut down trying to replace Twitter (X).
Twitter thrives on drama and toxicity, and Koo thought they could do build a platform free of this toxicity.
Newsflash: no drama, no audience.
Will there be the rise of another social media platform like instagram or twitter?
Just saw the news of KOO being shut down, which was india's equivalent to X/twitter. (At some point)
Can we see another social media rise upto the levels of instagram
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