The made-in-India rival of Twitter, Koo, which has been trying to woo users of the Elon Musk-owned platform ever since the tumultuous takeover by the billionaire, is now planning to make use of the workforce laid off by Twitter.
Koo co-founder Mayank Bidawatka, in a recent tweet, said the company is planning to hire some former employees of Twitter as his company keeps expanding.
He said the employees who lost jobs "deserve to work where their talent is valued."
"Very sad to see #RIPTwitter and related # to this going down. We'll hire some of these Twitter ex-employees as we keep expanding and raise our larger, next round. They deserve to work where their talent is valued. Micro-blogging is about people power. Not suppression," he tweeted.
A few days ago, more than 90 per cent of the employees at Twitter India have been asked to go. This meant only a dozen employees of the company were left to manage the India operations of the company. Twitter had over 200 employees in India. Nearly 70 per cent of the layoffs in Twitter India were from product and engineering departments.
Koo, which has crossed 50 million downloads, had said it will continue to safeguard this important digital right and "the verification of humanness will always remain free," after Twitter said it will charge $8 for 'verified' handles.
"Koo takes pride in its transparent and inclusive criteria which is a far cry from Twitter's legacy criteria of 'Authentic, Notable and Active' or even the newer criteria of being able to pay USD 8! Koo is in fact the first social media platform that celebrates Eminence with a clear and transparent methodology," co-founder and CEO of Koo Aprameya Radhakrishna had said.
