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Twitter's India business is trending despite company's face-off with govt

According to data intelligence platform Similarweb, the Twitter app's daily active users on Android increased to 10.03 million in May from 7.85 million in January 2021, a 27 per cent rise

Twitter Chief Executive Officer and co-founder Jack Dorsey with IIT-Delhi students in New Delhi on Monday (Photo: PTI)
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Jack Dorsey, Twitter's CEO and co-founder, with IIT-Delhi students in New Delhi in 2018. (PTI file photo)

Neha Alawadhi New Delhi
The last few months have been stressful for Twitter in India given the way things have panned out between the microblogging platform and the Indian government. On the business front though, the controversy has probably helped Twitter more than harming it, at least if one looks at the numbers.

According to data intelligence platform Similarweb, the Twitter app’s daily active users on Android increased to 10.03 million in May from 7.85 million in January 2021, a 27 per cent rise. Similarweb data shows that Twitter downloads on Android saw a dip to 3.4 million in February, but have been on