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What’s the twitter that’s not owned by musk? Because I’m surprised there isn’t a single twitter clone alternative.
BlueSky? Threads by Mark Zuckerberg?
Very unfortunate name for a company that wanted to expand in Brazil. In Portuguese, Koo is homophonous with the word for a**hole, so it's not a surprise it didn't stick. Not to say it wasn't humorous though. People had a lot of fun talking about and asking others about their Koos.
> Not to say it wasn't humorous though. People had a lot of fun talking about and asking others about their Koos.
Probably helped with some initial hype with some people just to be able to joke about it. Is it a bit like Mastodon's "toots", I guess. It was funny for a bit, then it was just eye rolling.
On the other hand in Russian and ex-Soviet space, "koo" would a great reference to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kin-dza-dza! a movie by Georgiy Daneliya.
> The natives of the planet appear human, with deceptively primitive-looking technology and a barbaric culture, which satirically resembles that of humans. They are telepathic; the only spoken words normally used in their culture are "ku" (koo) and "kyu" (kyoo), the former stands for everything good, the latter being a swear word that stands for every bad thing.
People are out of ideas. Twitter but for India. Twitter but not owned Elon Musk. Twitter but integrated with substack. Twitter but federated. Twitter but decentralized. Will any of these do better? Possibly the last two, if someone builts an innovative user experience on top of them.
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Very unfortunate name for a company that wanted to expand in Brazil. In Portuguese, Koo is homophonous with the word for a**hole, so it's not a surprise it didn't stick. Not to say it wasn't humorous though. People had a lot of fun talking about and asking others about their Koos.
Koo , I believe, is named after: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuckoo#Calls > People had a lot of fun talking about and asking others about their Koos. You just might enjoy the opening sequence of this song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yek4hrl25qU&t=23
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-56007451
After koo was announced many of the supporters of India's R/W central govt switched over to Koo boosting its numbers.. but as with Meta's Threads, it was inevitable that the platform would lose its shine quickly
Just a vile place filled with some of the most blatantly misogynistic, racist, hatefilled content.
But now that the Twitter is happy to host all these people, Koo was destined to fail
SaaS companies rise and fall all the time. I didn't get any sense of what was special about this tale. A lot of "this happened, and then this happened," but I would have liked some more insight.
Twitter dies as soon as free money stops. Many internet companies are zombies or even worse
Surely twitter's value isn't in its revenue.... you can make a lot more money openly manipulating public opinion in a socially acceptable manner. See: why rich people buy newspapers.
Koo was never thriving.
That's the feeling I always got.
It was just a place for RWingers of India. Even that could be an interesting place. But it wasn’t.
I tried reading Koo once or twice, and I wasn’t interested in anything.
I don't have any preemptive beef against Commies or Indian RW or whoever, but that platform had more saffron color than the BJP party office. Saffron border, bland white background, and saffron checkmarks for verified accounts. Total UI design hell.
No wonder it failed.