“We have no idea why the handle is suspended. No explanation has been given,” stated Koo cofounder-CEO Aprameya Radhkrishna.
One of the Koo handles on Twitter simply acquired banned. For what?! Because we compete with Twitter? So? Mastodon additionally go… https://t.co/IzGvRRzTWk
— Aprameya ???????? (@aprameya) 1671172042000
On Twitter, Radhakrishna tweeted, “One of the Koo handles on Twitter just got banned. For what?! Because we compete with Twitter? So? Mastodon (another Twitter competitor) also got blocked today. How is this free speech and what world are we living in? What’s happening here @elonmusk?”
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Speaking to ET from San Francisco, Mayank Bidawatka, one other Koo cofounder, stated that he was involved about Koo’s different Twitter handles, some 10-15 in quantity, being suspended. “We have no idea why this account was suspended. We’re going to write to Twitter and figure out why. I’m even worried about our other accounts being suspended because today Mastodon was also suspended for no reason. We cater to queries from our users on these Twitter accounts. We have multiple accounts for countries like India and Brazil, and also for grievance redressal,” Bidawatka stated.
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@KooforBrasil has 214,700 followers whereas @KooAppIndia has 5,297 followers. Bidawatka additionally stated that he was unable to log in to @KooforUSA. When ET checked this deal with, the Twitter web page stated, “This account doesn’t exist.”
“@kooeminence had zero tweets. Why would it be suspended? We started it to cater to VIPs who may have queries about Koo,” Bidawatka stated, including that Twitter accounts get suspended on account of dormancy solely after a number of years.
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Twitter additionally suspended the accounts of a number of tech journalists, together with one every from CNN and The New York Times.