OT: Psy's "Gangnam Style" breaks YouTube's counter

Kenneth Brody kenbrody at spamcop.net
Wed Dec 3 18:22:20 PST 2014


"Signed 32-bit int" strikes again:

     www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/03/gangnam-style-youtube_n_6261332.html

> YouTube never expected one of its videos to garner such a large number of
> views. In a post on Monday, the company said the YouTube system wasn't
> prepared. "We never thought a video would be watched in numbers greater than
> a 32-bit integer (=2,147,483,647 views)," the post reads.

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Kenneth Brody


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