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Gangnam Style Surpasses YouTube's 32-bit View Counter

Posted by samzenpus on from the winning-the-internet dept.

First time accepted submitter neoritter writes "The Korean pop star PSY's viral music video "Gangnam Style" has reached the limit of YouTube's view counter. According to YouTube's Google+ account, "We never thought a video would be watched in numbers greater than a 32-bit integer (=2,147,483,647 views), but that was before we met PSY. 'Gangnam Style' has been viewed so many times we had to upgrade to a 64-bit integer (9,223,372,036,854,775,808)!"

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  1. numbering by gbjbaanb · · Score: 5, Interesting

    who cares really?

    The numbering should go 1.. 2.. 3.. etc.. thousands.. tens of thousands.. hundreds of thousands.. millions.. too many to give a fuck about.

    1. Re:numbering by istartedi · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Billions and billions served. I remember when McDonald's changed that. It was sad. It was also like they were saying that they were too lazy to keep track of their hamburgers any more. It made me wonder what else they were too lazy to keep track of. Billions and billions of rodent hairs?

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  2. Almost as many views as people with internet by tompaulco · · Score: 1, Interesting

    According to some estimates, about 3 billion people have access to the internet. The stats would indicate that about 2/3 of the people with internet access have viewed this video, or more disturbingly that some people have watched it more than once.
    As a man married to a Korean, I will admit to having started to watch it, but finishing it would have been a waste of valuable minutes of my life. Does that still count as a "hit"?

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  3. Half of the credit... by Ecuador · · Score: 2, Interesting

    ... for the successful rick-rolling goes to the "informative" mods...
    Even though "beats the 64bit integer" was very obvious BS, I still clicked...

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