New Delhi:  In response to the ”legal requests” from the Central government, Twitter on Wednesday informed that it has taken multiple enforcement actions — including permanent suspension of over 500 accounts for clear violations of Twitter’s rules.

The social media giant in a statement said, “Separate to our enforcement under the Twitter Rules, over the course of the last 10 days, Twitter has been served with several separate blocking orders by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Government of India, under Section 69A of the Information Technology Act.”

“We took a range of enforcement actions — including permanent suspension in certain cases — against more than 500 accounts escalated across all Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology orders for clear violations of Twitter’s Rules,” the statement added.

“Upon the request of Twitter seeking a meeting with the Govt., the Secretary IT was to engage with senior management of Twitter. In this light a blog post published prior to this engagement is unusual. Govt. will share its response soon,” it said in a post on Koo.

After this Twitter users started trending #BanTWITTER on the platform and urged people to join Koo the made-in-India alternative of twitter.

This is how Twitterati reacted:

I want a tweet by Modi ji saying ‘This is my last tweet. For further updates you can find me at _______’#BanTWITTER #kooapp

— हर्ष श्रीवास्तव (@HarshOutlook) February 10, 2021

#BanTWITTER is trending on twitter.

Twitter owner ??. pic.twitter.com/ksW8hAIION

— Umang Mishra (@UmangMi04647171) February 10, 2021

#BanTWITTER trending

Twitter be like pic.twitter.com/j95YGuxc4j

— Anirudh Sharma (@Anirudh78867581) February 10, 2021

After taking down Donald Trump & several other accounts, Twitter is lecturing India on the right of free speech & expression. #BanTwitter https://t.co/Nh0ZnoGmem

— Naveen Kaushik (@telmispartan) February 10, 2021

What a duplicitous shameless leftist entity is @Twitter.

They repeatedly banned handles like #TrueIndology & they have audacity to give gyan on free speech. Only solution is to #BanTWITTER https://t.co/6DkJ3eTcyx

— Radharamn Das (@RadharamnDas) February 10, 2021

Excellent news !! Now #Bantwitter https://t.co/vyLjZ2cBqt

— Anu Satheesh ?? (@AnuSatheesh5) February 10, 2021

Koo App: An Indian alternative to Twitter; how to download

Koo is a micro-blogging platform that is an alternative app to Twitter built for Indians. It was launched 10 months ago and till now have won the AatmaNirbhar innovation challenge and is a Made in India service as per the vision of PM Modi.

The social media platform is developed by Aprameya Radhakrishna and Mayank Bidawatka in March 2020. The app supports multiple Indian regional languages. Koo supports Hindi, Telugu, Kannada, Bengali, Tamil, Malayalam, Gujarati, Marathi, Punjabi, Oriya and Assamese.

HOW TO DOWNLOAD?

Koo is available for download on the Google Play Store and Apple App Store. Users can download the Koo app on their iPhone and Android devices.

Click here to download Koo for Android

Click here to download Koo for iPhone

The Koo app has an average rating of 4.7 stars on Google Play Store and 4.1 on the iOS App Store.