[https://edition.cnn.com/2021/03/08/tech/india-internet-homegrown-apps/index.html](https://edition.cnn.com/2021/03/08/tech/india-internet-homegrown-apps/index.html) Koo, touted by India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi and used enthusiastically by several officials and ministries in his government, has been downloaded 3.3 million times so far this year, per app analytics firm Sensor Tower. It's a promising start for a company founded less than a year ago, but less than Twitter's 4.2 million Indian downloads during the same period.