- Safiu Kehinde
Popular social media platform, X (formerly called Twitter) has on Tuesday thrown Nigerian social media influencers and other netizens into a brief state of panic as platform crashes.
As also experienced by NPO Reports Correspondent, the social media platform suffered abrupt service disruption with contents and pages failing to upload.
This had left several X users in the dark as they recounted been unable to view or upload content.
Some social media influencers in subsequent posts on their verified X handles also confirmed suffering the glitch.
“Is Twitter Down?” @Imran Mohammed asked in a post on his x handle
“What’s wrong with X?” @Chucks also posted.
“Was your X account down too? Abi na just me? Comment if you can see this tweet?”@Oyindamola wrote.
Meanwhile, some X users attributed to crash which lasted for about one and half hour to network issue from popular web traffic security platform, Cloudfare.
As confirmed by the company, the crash occurred in the early hours of Tuesday, triggering downtime across popular websites and social platforms, including X.
“Omo… Fear first catch me Until I see “it’s not your fault”@damolalight
“X down? Na Elon dey do maintenance or dem dey patch holes for Wike’s convoy gate”@Priscalnall