Koo has a 'stronger network' than its bigger rival Twitter, says study
India's
local language microblogging platform Koo has stronger networks compared to
Twitter, a new study has found. Currently available in seven languages, Koo hit
headlines last month when ministers and political leaders said they were going
to move to the country's homegrown microblogging platform.
"The
Koo network has a noticeably high local clustering coefficient of 0.561, that
represents how well connected the neighbourhood of a vertex is. This indicates
a strong modular structure in the network, presumably due to Koo only catering
to audiences from a single country. In contrast, Twitter, which caters to
worldwide audiences, only had an average local clustering coefficient of 0.072
during its early years in 2009, indicating much weaker communities," said
the study, titled "Koo: The new king? Characterising India's emerging
social network".
According
to network scientist Jérôme Kunegis, clustering is an important property of
social networks, as people tend to have friends who are also friends with each
other, resulting in sets of people among which many common people existHe
further explains that the clustering coefficient is a real number between zero
and one that is zero when there is no clustering, and one for maximum
clustering.
The
current study was undertaken by students Asmit Kumar Singh, Chirag Jain, Rishi
Raj Jain, and professor Ponnurangam Kumaraguru from Indraprastha Institute of
Information Technology, Delhi and Jivitesh Jain and Shradha Sehgal from the
International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, examined 4
million users on Koo.
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