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Twitter suspends Indian microblogging site Koo's account, bans Mastodon

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Microblogging site Twitter has suspended the account of Indian microblogging platform Koo.
The Twitter handle @kooeminence was suspended on Friday, a development that came in the wake of billionaire Elon Musk-owned Twitter suspending the accounts of several prominent global journalists, including those from the New York Times, CNN and .
Taking to Twitter, Mayank Bidawatka, co-founder of the homegrown microblogging platform said, « I forgot. There’s more! – Banning Mastodon account. – Not allowing mastodon links saying it’s unsafe. – Banning Koo’s eminence handle. I mean seriously. How much more control does the guy need? »
Mastodon is the social media rival of Twitter.
In a series of tweets, Bidawatka questioned the rationale behind suspending the @kooeminence account, which has been set up only a few days ago for queries posed by celebrities and VIPs wanting to use the Indian social media platform.
« 1. Posting publicly available info isn’t doxxing. Why shoot the messenger? 2.

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