No. 143: 🐦 Koo is Big in India and Brazil - Can it Challenge Twitter in the US?

✌️ Twitter Alternatives: Part 2

Dec 16, 2022

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Welcome to this week’s edition of hi, tech. Pro!

We’re continuing our look at the Twitter alternatives that feel emboldened by Elon Musk’s madcap start to social media life.

This week, Mr Free Speech started blocking links from Twitter to Mastodon:

If you’re wondering why he’s scared of Mastodon, check out part one of our high-flying series on Twitter alternatives here:

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No. 142: 🐦 Flying the Coop: How do the Twitter Alternatives Match Up?

🤓 Welcome to hi, tech. Pro! This is the first in a special series of hands-on reviews. I’ll be assessing the Twitter alternatives, from Mastodon to Koo, with a lot more in-between! In fact, just this week we learned that Meta is thinking about building a Twitter rival…

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This time, it’s Koo.

Of all the Twitter imitators out there, Koo might just be the most aggressive. This week, it launched a Twitter migration tool that moves a user’s tweets over to Koo.

After a successful launch in Brazil, it is now encouraging American users to #JoinKoo too.

So, how does it work, how is it really different from Twitter, and is it a long-term alternative?

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