There has been a recent trend in Pakistan and other developing countries of banning social media websites on one pretext or another, thereby deniying the populace from access to such common sites like youtube, facebook etc. Can there be an software to detect the number of times this happens so that we could inform the public and the government of the total losses occured
You may have to build your own tool for this. From authorities perspective it might be much easier, they could monitor from DNS servers logs. But in your case, it appears from user perspective or independent body monitoring, I would recommend using traceroute and wireshark tools. Trace route could be used to determine route to the servers, but you could count failures to the social network servers. If you could get access to source codes, you may modify traceroute to suit your purpose. Good luck.
You can do media analysis and observe the denials to public because they have been widely reported. Moreover, you can request ministry of information for this data.
It might depend also on where is blocking realized. Some pages may be clocked already by PC security SW, another blocking might be done by some local provider before transfer to big telcos' networks etc.
Some blocking can be done in time of network congestion etc.
There are different censorship enforcement techniques, and detecting censorship is not trivial. To have a broader understanding of this you can read the recent survey I've authored specifically on this topic (attached).
A list of tools is reported and discussed, specifically designed for detection: no need to create your own, or if you want, better check what are the resources and the knowledge already available on censorship detection.
This is my active research field so I'm glad to help if more info is needed.
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