05/10/2021
Tuesday Morning Post: Lessons from Whatsapp, Facebook and Instagram Downtime!
1. At about 5pm, Monday 4th October 2021, the trio highly used platforms went down for about 8 hours and it was like the world was on standstill! What lessons can be drawn?
2. Monopoly leads to Stampede: One man shouldnโt own everything, if something goes wrong, everything goes wrong, imagine if Mark owned Twitter too
3. Plan and nurture alternatives: Until today, I hadnโt opened the telegram app this year ๐ some of us never planned for a whatsapp alternative
4. Those that drum for war, this is a glimpse of what it looks like-no communication, no internet, confusion everywhere
5. This blackout has forced many to drop thier phones and have human interactions, WE ARE TOO INVOLVED WITH OUR GADGETS
6. Decentralization of Control: The 3 products are too huge to be centrally managed, they should be independent entities is governance and infrastructure same issue with Nigeria
7. Collaboration VS Competition: Whatsapp had to rely on Twitter to announce its challenges
8. This downtime paused businesses, lectures, live streams, romance, relationships , transactions etc
9. Dear Small businesses, itโs not enough to have IG accounts and whatsapp numbers, you might need to invest in getting a website!
10. Ironically, I had to wait for Facebook, Whatsapp and IG to post this ๐๐๐ soon APC will blame PDP for this crash ๐๐
M.I.O.. 2021