Arizin Posted December 5, 2014 Share Posted December 5, 2014 Watch any video on YouTube and you'll see a counter representing that number of times that video has been viewed--whether it's a couple hundred, a couple thousand or a couple million.But what if a video surpassed a couple billion views?That was never in the realm of possibility for YouTube. In an online statement, the video sharing service said its counter previously used a 32-bit integer, which is a unit that represents data in computer architecture. This means the maximum possible views it could count was just above 2 billion. (Or to be exact: 2,147,483,647.)"We never thought a video would be watched in numbers greater than a 32-bit integer," YouTube said in the statement posted this week. "But that was before we met Psy."Psy is a South Korean musician who became an international star in 2012 with "Gangnam Style." The song's accompanying music video became a viral sensation because of its surreal, goofy style and popular dance routine that sparked parodies and flash mobs across the world.The video premiered on YouTube on July 15, 2012. Four months later it became the most watched video in YouTube's seven-year history. The video became the first video to surpass 1 billion views on Dec. 21, 2012--which Mashable points out was coincidently the same day Mayans predicted the world would end.Google, the company that owns YouTube, told The Verge that engineers "saw this coming a couple months ago and updated our systems to prepare for it".To prepare, YouTube implemented a 64-bit integer for its video counter, which means videos have a maximum viewer count of 9.22 quintillion.To be exact, YouTube said that's 9,223,372,036,854,775,808.Psy has yet to comment, although news of YouTube's change was shared and on his Twitter account.The second most-watched video on YouTube, Justin Bieber's "Baby," trails "Gangnam Style" by morethan a billion views.UPDATE: Google has clarified for The Verge that its counter was never actually broken. "We saw this coming a couple months ago and updated our systems to prepare for it," says the YouTube proprietor, "so we updated to a 64-bit counter (9,223,372,036,854,775,808 max — that's 9 quintillion)." Guess that gives Psy a new objective to aim for.Source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
locoJoe Posted December 5, 2014 Share Posted December 5, 2014 Such crappy music, Ive never watched it all the way thru, seen a little bit of it on TV. No heart no soul, just bull. Speaks volumes about our society nowadays that so many view such things and consider it great :wtf: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iih1 Posted December 5, 2014 Share Posted December 5, 2014 Nice funny for me, though a bit silly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Nude Dude Posted December 5, 2014 Share Posted December 5, 2014 Such crappy music, Ive never watched it all the way thru, seen a little bit of it on TV. No heart no soul, just bull. Speaks volumes about our society nowadays that so many view such things and consider it great :wtf:take it for what it was mean for tongue in cheek humor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sri Posted December 5, 2014 Share Posted December 5, 2014 This "style" never touch my heart, till now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyberboom Posted December 5, 2014 Share Posted December 5, 2014 That was a programming stuff ^_^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GRiM Posted December 6, 2014 Share Posted December 6, 2014 Such crappy music, Ive never watched it all the way thru, seen a little bit of it on TV. No heart no soul, just bull. Speaks volumes about our society nowadays that so many view such things and consider it great :wtf:..or it just may be possible that people can have different tastes, humor etc to you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nIGHT Posted December 6, 2014 Share Posted December 6, 2014 I wonder how much did he earned from just youtube advertisements. :think: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
software182 Posted December 7, 2014 Share Posted December 7, 2014 I wonder how much did he earned from just youtube advertisements. :think:It must be enough to cover up all bandwith for nsaneforums for 10 years or more :tooth: :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
software182 Posted December 7, 2014 Share Posted December 7, 2014 I wonder how much did he earned from just youtube advertisements. :think:It must be enough to cover up all bandwith for nsaneforums for 10 years or more :tooth: :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
locoJoe Posted December 7, 2014 Share Posted December 7, 2014 I wonder how much did he earned from just youtube advertisements. :think:It must be enough to cover up all bandwith for nsaneforums for 10 years or more :tooth: :Plol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
banned Posted December 8, 2014 Share Posted December 8, 2014 its counter previously used a 32-bit integer, which is a unit that represents data in computer architecture. This means the maximum possible views it could count was just above 2 billion. (Or to be exact: 2,147,483,647.)lol, wrong. 32-bits is 4 billion. Programmer should learn the difference between a signed integer and unsigned integer. Don't use a signed integer when it's impossible to have a negative number of youtube views!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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