Facebook and the company’s entire family of apps suffered an outage Monday morning. Shortly before 9 a.m. Pacific time, the social network’s namesake app, along with Instagram, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, and Oculus — Facebook’s virtual reality service — became unreachable for many people.
The outages appeared to be caused by a server configuration issue.
John Graham-Cumming, CTO of infrastructure company Cloudflare said the company noticed a sudden dropoff of activity:
Facebook spokesperson Andy Stone tweeted that company is working to restore access to its apps. Referring to reports that Facebook’s internal systems had also been affected by the outage, Instagram head Adam Mosseri tweeted that it “does feel like a snow day.”
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