Miffed With Twitter, Centre to Use Home-Grown Koo for Public Communication Before Tweeting FOLLOW US ON: India's microblogging platform Koo, rival to Twitter, is likely to be used by the Centre as their primary port of communication with the public, top government officials aware of the development informed News18 on condition of anonymity. Important updates, notifications and announcements will be shared 1-3 hours before on Koo and then on Twitter, said sources. This comes amid the standoff between Twitter and the Centre over the removal of several accounts related to farmers' protests, who were trending the hashtag on farmers’ genocide.