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Koo has a 'stronger network' than its bigger rival Twitter, says study

The finding was made in a study titled 'Koo: The new king? Characterising India's emerging social network'

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A major spike in users was seen around 10 February 2021, when the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology posted a tweet promoting Koo, and many prominent government figures started joining the platform

Neha Alawadhi
India's local language microblogging platform Koo has stronger networks compared to Twitter, a new study has found. Currently available in seven languages, Koo hit headlines last month when ministers and political leaders said they were going to move to the country's homegrown microblogging platform.

"The Koo network has a noticeably high local clustering coefficient of 0.561, that represents how well connected the neighbourhood of a vertex is. This indicates a strong modular structure in the network, presumably due to Koo only catering to audiences from a single country. In contrast, Twitter, which caters to worldwide audiences, only had an average

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