Top 5 Indian Social Networking sites in India 2021
Social Networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, Reddit, Tumblr, etc. are very useful for us to connect with the world. Some people are using this platform for promoting their brand or business or making friends and chatting with them, with the help of social media sites you can show your talent to the whole world because generally popular social media sites are used globally and you can easily find your community to promote yourself or your business or brand.
This type of platform has lots of content that attracts people toward the platform to use them addictively by adding some interesting and addictive features on their platform. Some social media platforms have a monetization feature, for example, Facebook, you can create content on Facebook and you can earn lots of money from it but you have to utilize these types of platforms very smartly to make more money from it.
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What is Social Media?
Social media is a platform where people can share/ exchange information, ideas, career interests, and other forms of expression via virtual communities and networks.
There are some common features like user-generated content such as text photos or comments, digital photos or videos, and some data generated through all online interactions. Users can create self-specific profiles for the websites or apps designed and maintained by the social media organization on these platforms. Social media helps the development of online social networks by connecting a user’s profile with those of other individuals or groups.
Social media services usually access by a web-based app on desktops, laptops, or download services that offer social media functionality to their mobile devices. If you want to make your online presence in the world then you should use social media platforms.
Here you will get to know about 5 Indian social media or social networking platforms which is developed by Indian companies or developers.
If you want to use India’s own social networking sites or made-in-India social networking sites like Facebook or Twitter, etc. then
Here is the list of 5 Indian social networking sites:
- Koo
- Tooter
- Elyments
- Yarabook
- Hercircle
1. Koo
Koo is an Indian microblogging platform like Twitter. It is a social networking service based in Banglore, Karnataka, India. This app was developed by Aprameya Radhakrishna and Mayank Bidawatka. This app won the “Digital India Aatmanirbhar App Innovation challenge” which is organized by the Government of India in August 2020.
Koo App was first launched in Kannada languages but now this app supports Hindi, English, Tamil, Telugu, Assamese, Bangla, Gujarati, and Marathi. In the future, it has plans to provide support for Kashmiri, Konkani, Malayalam, Meitei, Nepali, Odia, Punjabi, Sanskrit, and Urdu. When these languages support will roll out completely, this social media platform becomes one of the most languages supported platforms.
Koo is an Indian alternative to the Twitter platform, here you will get to see almost every feature like Twitter, you can share links, photos, videos, text, comments, retweets, etc.
This platform has many bugs that should be fixed by the developers, but it is a very new social media platform so few bugs are obvious which will be fixed by its developer soon as people utilize this platform.
2. Tooter
Tooter is an Indian microblogging platform very similar to the Twitter platform. It comes in 56+ different languages. It is a swadeshi social media platform. On this platform, you can do everything which you can do on Twitter-like sharing text information, videos, photos, links, tweets, retweets, following other profiles, trending hashtags, etc. but on tooter when you send any short messages called “Toot” not “Tweet” like Twitter platform. When you follow someone’s profile on Tooter then you will get to see their Toot on your home feed to this platform.
3. Elyments
Elyments is a Mobile-based indigenous microblogging platform like Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram, etc. Elyments is India’s first social media platform which is launched by the vice president of India in presence of Gurudev Sri Sri Ravishankar on 5 July. This elyments app was developed by Bengaluru based “Sumeru Software Solution Pvt. Ltd.” and the company’s employees working as volunteers in the “Art of living” Organisation founded by Gurudev Sri Sri Ravishankar who is the Indian Spiritual Leader. In this app you can do a video call, or voice calls like WhatsApp or Instagram and its user interface is too easy to understand and very user-friendly. Here you can share everything like other social media platforms.
4. Yarabook
Yarabook is the best Indian alternative to the Facebook platform. You can do everything on this platform on Facebook, but some features make this platform different from Facebook like here you can create and write your own blog within your Yarabook account. On the Yarabook platform, you can share photos, videos, links, and text and promote your brand or business, etc. Yarabook gives your free Rs.5000 credit when you download its Android App on your phone and log in to your Yarabook account and with help of 5000 credit, you can promote or boost your posts, article, video to reach the more people.
5. Hercircle
Hercircle is also a microblogging platform that is launched by Nita Ambai. She is the chairperson and founder of the Reliance Foundation, Dhirubhai Ambani International School, and a director of Reliance Industries. Hercircle is an initiative for women launched this year on the International women’s day occasion of 8 March 2021 by Nite Ambani. This digital platform is only for women not for men. Only women can create an account on this platform. No man can create an account on this platform but he can read out the article, videos, and posts, from this platform on the engage section. This platform provides women-related content and this is the first social media platform that is dedicated to only women. To use the platform women must be 18 years or old because, under 18 years of age, no one can create an account.
So this is the list of 5 Indian social media platform which is completely developed in India and its owner is an Indian we should thankful him to create India’s own social media platform because when you see in the top list of any apps categories, no one Indian apps are listed there but from this time this will be the game changer so many Indian professional developers are working continuously to make India proud in Digital world and create world-class apps that will accept globally like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc.
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