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by niko001 1718 days ago
It would be interesting to estimate what dollar value can be ascribed to a x-hour FB outage, both in terms of lost ad revenue for FB itself as well missed conversions/revenue for businesses running ads on FB/IG.
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Does anyone know if FB's advertisement contracts even have an SLA ?

I can completely picture a world in which many people bought some ads yesterday morning (say, to promote an event that occured yesterday evening), the ads were never displayed to anyone, and FB will keep the money, thank you.

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