[kictanet] Facebook, Whatsapp Instagram Down?

Tue Oct 5 08:51:52 EAT 2021

Someone asked me last night what was the impact on African businesses
during the downtime.

It would be great to do a quick study on this. Maybe the Facebook team can
assist us with this. One thing for me is clear and w shouldn't lose sight
of this - Any system in the world can have downtime. Big Tech is not an
exception. I'm keen for us to discuss mitigating these systemic risks.

Regards

*Ali Hussein*

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On Tue, Oct 5, 2021 at 7:34 AM Barrack Otieno via KICTANet <
kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

> Could be domain name system related. Twitter has been here before. Happens
> to the best of Infrastructure and that is why we need  critical
> infrastructure protection laws in place in this day and age.
>
> Regards
>
> On Tue, 5 Oct 2021, 4:50 am Ronald Ojino via KICTANet, <
> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>
>> Of great interest would be to know the cause of the outage.
>> I Hope it wasn't as a result of a security breach.
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 5, 2021 at 12:02 AM Mutindi Muema via KICTANet <
>> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>>
>>> The memes are hilarious 🤣🤣🤣🤣
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, 4 Oct 2021, 20:21 Egline Jeptoo via KICTANet, <
>>> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Twitter usage now must be high to an extend Facebook is acknowledging
>>>> the outage on Twitter 🙂
>>>>
>>>> "We’re aware that some people are having trouble accessing our apps and
>>>> products. We’re working to get things back to normal as quickly as
>>>> possible, and we apologize for any inconvenience."
>>>>
>>>> https://twitter.com/Facebook/status/1445061804636479493?s=19
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, 4 Oct 2021, 19:26 A Mutheu via KICTANet, <
>>>> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi  Barrack,
>>>>>
>>>>> I guess Mark Zuckerberg showing the world who runs the world after
>>>>> being called out today - smile.
>>>>>
>>>>> WhatsApp, Facebook & Instagram have crashed worldwide.
>>>>>
>>>>> Would be intresting to know the twitter usage spike currently.
>>>>>
>>>>> Stay happy,
>>>>>
>>>>> Mutheu.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, 4 Oct 2021, 7:14 pm Barrack Otieno via KICTANet, <
>>>>> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Good Evening listers,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Is it just on my end?, indeed uptime can only be 99.9%
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Regards
>>>>>>
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