Brazilian President Lula da Silva Joins Koo, Gets Over 1 Lakh Followers In Two Days
Koo enables conversations in several languages. Starting in India, it is now used by people from over 100 countries.
New Delhi: Brazilian President Lula da Silva joined Indian micro-blogging platform Koo and got over 50,000 followers in only four hours.
He announced his arrival by a Portuguese post that translates to, “I have arrived. What are you looking for here?”
His first post got over 33,000 likes and over 10,000 comments, and he has garnered more than 1 lakh followers within two days of joining the platform.
President da Silva joined Koo around two weeks after the platform launched in Brazil around November 18.
On Thursday, Koo co-founder Mayank Bidawatka posted on LinkedIn saying, “Welcoming the President of Brazil on Koo. It’s the start of world leaders joining the platform. He got 57K+ followers in 4 hours of joining and 20K+ likes and 7K+ comments on his first post.”
Koo CEO Aprameya Radhakrishna said, “We are delighted to have Brazil's President-Elect Lula Da Silva on our platform. Koo is a brilliant platform that welcomes different perspectives, voices and opinions.”
“We pride ourselves in being a truly democratic platform that helps everyone form connections and share updates with their followers. I'm sure Brazilians all over the world would want to know the president-elect’s plans for the nation directly from him. We feel honoured and humbled by the love shown towards Koo by Brazilians. We will continue to provide a platform for people to express and enjoy the benefits of a true microblog for free. We don’t believe in charging users,” he added.
The Brazilian President announced his arrival in Koo on Twitter with a yellow bird emoji and garnered over 100,000 likes on his tweet.
Notably, Koo enables conversations in several languages. Starting in India, it is now used by people from over 100 countries. Koo is available in 11 languages, including Portuguese, and has users all over the world.
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