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Fear and worry gripped a myriad of Nigerians on social media on Thursday as Twitter shut down for over two hours.
The social media platform used by millions worldwide is one of the major information-sharing platforms that has been instrumental to the #EndSARS campaign.
According to downdetector.com, users on every continent had reported being unable to use the platform, but the outages were concentrated on the east and west coasts of the United States, as well as Japan and some African countries including Nigeria.
The outage appeared to have began around 09:30pm before it was restored around past 12am on Friday.
“We are continuing to monitor the issue, and things appear to have returned to normal,” Twitter’s application programming interface site said on Friday.
In the same vein, the California-based company had tweeted earlier, “We had some trouble with our internal systems and don’t have any evidence of a security breach or hack.”
Leading protesters against the criminal acts of some of the operatives of the now-disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad of the Nigeria Police Force have, however, expressed concerns over the technical collapse of the social media application.
Actress Kate Henshaw tweeted, “Twitter oooo!!!! What happun???? You people crashed a whole app! I fear who no fear una. #EndSARS #EndPoliceBrutalityNigeria.
Comedian, Mr Macaroni wrote: Buharist Adamu threatened Jack (Twitter CEO) because he supported the #EndsSARS movement. Jack responded by creating our #EndSARS emoji. We are WINNING!!
Twitter user, @I_am_sunkytech wrote: Jack Patrick Dorsey (Twitter CEO) shows his support by launching an official emoji for #EndSARS protest. We are winning. Thank you Jack.