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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 shouldn’t own everything, if something goes wrong, everything goes wrong, imagine if Mark owned Twitter too

3. Plan and nurture alternatives: Until today, I hadn’t opened the telegram app this year 😂 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, it’s 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 😂😂😂 soon APC will blame PDP for this crash 😂🏃

M.I.O.. 2021