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Nigeria’s Twitter Coup: Govt Joins Indian Microblogging Site Koo – The Wilmington Journal

CHENNAI, India — Indian microblogging site Koo made inroads in Nigeria days after US tech giant Twitter was indefinitely suspended in the African country. The Nigerian government opened an account on Koo, India’s answer to a [...]

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