- Facebook-owned apps are down in a widespread outage, including
Instagram and WhatsApp. - On Twitter,
Facebook employees and social-media managers have called Monday a "snow day." - Instagram's boss tweeted, "It does feel like a snow day."
Instagram boss Adam Mosseri likened a widespread outage affecting all Facebook-owned apps to a "snow day" in a recent tweet.
The tweet was written in response to one user's post saying, "Instagram should stay offline forever." Mosseri replied, "Them fighting words… but it does feel like a snow day."
Sources told the New York Times technology reporter Ryan Mac that "no one can do any work" at Facebook, which has caused internal declarations of a "snow day."
Mac tweeted "or maybe it's hydrofoil day" in response, referencing a viral video showing Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg riding a hydrofoil surfboard on the Fourth of July.
Social-media managers outside Facebook have also called Monday a social-media "snow day" on Twitter, while apologizing for not being able to reach clients and customers.
Workplace, a communications tool owned by Facebook and used by 7 million paid subscribers, is also down. During a similar Facebook
Downdetector has received more than 86,000 user reports of Facebook outages since 11:25 a.m. ET on Monday, according to its website. Of these issues, 79% were related to Facebook's website, 12% were related to server connections, and 9% were related to the app.
Facebook said in a tweet, "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."