2 papers
cs.SI2024
How Language, Culture, and Geography shape Online Dialogue: Insights from Koo
Amin Mekacher, Max Falkenberg, Andrea Baronchelli
Koo is a microblogging platform based in India launched in 2020 with the explicit aim of catering to non-Western communities in their vernacular languages. With a near-complete dat…
cs.SI2024
The Koo Dataset: An Indian Microblogging Platform With Global Ambitions
Amin Mekacher, Max Falkenberg, Andrea Baronchelli
Increasingly, alternative platforms are playing a key role in the social media ecosystem. Koo, a microblogging platform based in India, has emerged as a major new social network ho…