NEW YORK: South Koran singer Psy’s ‘Gangnam Style’ song video has broken all records of popularity and forced Google’s management to stretch YouTube’s video view limit.
In the two years since the last time “Gangnam Style” on YouTube, people still tuned in to Psy’s YouTube channel to get some more. The video crossed the two billion views mark earlier this year, and it passed 2,147,483,647 views this week.
YouTube’s view counter is programmed with a 32-bit integer, where 2,147,483,647 is the limit. “We never thought a video would be watched in numbers greater than a 32-bit integer, but that was before we met PSY,” Google said in a blog post.
“‘Gangnam Style’ has been viewed so many times we had to upgrade to a 64-bit integer.” The limit there? 9,223,372,036,854,775,808.” it added.
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