In a virtual meeting with Twitter Vice President Monique Meshe and Jim Baker, the secretary of Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology said,"despite government instructions, fake accounts related to the peasant movement were not closed. This is very unfortunate". Earlier, Twitter replied it cannot fully oblige to the center's order citing violation of the right to freedom of expression and said the Indian government's demand was not in line with the country's laws. Twitter believes in protecting the Freedom of Expression of its users and hence it did not take an action against the accounts of media companies, journalists, social workers and politicians.
25+ lakhs downloads of the KOO app in last 48 hours-
Amidst the trending #ban_twitter and #Koo_app on twitter in India, many politicians and spokespersons are switching to Koo to express their anger and requesting their followers to do the same. Koo app
was launched only last year under self-sufficient India. About 3 million people downloaded it in 48 hours.