Koo Gets Over 1 Million Downloads Within 48 Hours of Launch in Brazil

Homegrown microblogging platform Koo App on Monday mentioned it has acquired a robust response from customers in Brazil, logging over 1 million downloads inside 48 hours of launch in that market.

Twitter-rival Koo goals to additional cement its place globally by making the app accessible to extra international locations and launching in a number of international languages.

The announcement comes at a time when billionaire Elon Musk has taken over Twitter, setting in movement huge adjustments and sacking many staff.

In a press release on Monday, Koo mentioned, “India’s multilingual microblogging platform, Koo App, was launched in Brazil with the addition of the Portuguese language, making it available in 11 native languages now”.

Within 48 hours of launch, the platform acquired a “tremendous response” from Brazil customers with over 1 million person downloads, Koo additional mentioned.

Koo occupied the primary spot on each the Android Play Store and Apple App Store for the previous few days, it added.

“With a blockbuster entry of an open platform for self-expression in languages, Koo has recently witnessed 2 million Koos and 10 million likes within 48 hours, by users in Brazil alone,” the assertion mentioned.

Koo CEO and co-founder Aprameya Radhakrishna mentioned the assist is a sworn statement that the platform is fixing an issue for native language-speaking customers not solely in India however the world over.

Earlier this month, Koo introduced that the entire obtain for its utility has crossed the 50 million (5 crore) mark. The platform was launched in early 2020 with an intention to turn out to be an alternative choice to different accessible microblogging choices, together with Twitter.

It is a multi-lingual, micro-blogging platform to allow Indians to specific themselves on-line of their mom tongues. Currently, Koo is accessible in 10 languages together with Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Punjabi, Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, Assamese, Bengali and English.