Gangnam Style breaks YouTube, forces 64-bit counter

The whole Gangnam Style craze may have already died down locally, but the official music video of the song continues to garner hit on YouTube. So much so that it maxed out Google-owned video streaming website’ view counter and forces them to upgrade to a 64-bit integer.

In a short blog post, Google stated that the official Gangnam Style video was the first in the world to surpass the allowable views in a 32-bit integer (2,147,483,647). It adds that the smash hit was “viewed so many times we had to upgrade to a 64-bit integer” which should be sufficient (for now at least) enough to handle the additional views of Psy’s catchy song (and other viral videos in the future).

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When asked if Gangnam Style really caused YouTube to upgrade their view counter, Google’s spokesperson Matt McLeron said that “nothing actually broke” and software engineers have already saw this coming. “There was never anything that actually went wrong. It’s just people having fun with the language,” he added.

The migration to 64-bit view counter takes up more memory but, in return, would allow YouTube to store numbers of up 9,223,372,036,854,775,808. Top that, Psy!

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Ronnie Bulaong

This article was written by Ronnie Bulaong, a special features contributor and correspondent for YugaTech. Follow him on Twitter @turonbulaong.

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13 Comments

Miss Call says:

10 years ago

“The migration to 64-bit view counter takes up more memory but, in return, would allow YouTube to store numbers of up 9,223,372,036,854,775,808.”

The view counter value is stored in memory? If you say so…
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binary-decimal says:

10 years ago

parang mali kasi

32bit = 1111 1111 1111 1111 1111 1111 1111 1111 = 4294967295

31bit = 1111 1111 1111 1111 1111 1111 1111 111 = 2147483647

kaya nga ang RAM pag 32bit ang OS mo, hanggang ~4GB lang ang max capacity.

likewise kung 63bit, tama yung values na binigay nila.
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Easy E says:

10 years ago

Magtanong kung may di naintindihan. Di yung magko-comment ng katangahan. Nakakahiya. Lol.
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Easy E says:

10 years ago

Was reading this earlier via cnet. Actually, 32bit signed integer talaga yun.
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eric jay says:

10 years ago

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/s3f49ktz.aspx ok, na gets ko na.hehe
nagflashback si data types mula sa memorya ko nung ni-lecture at at naging bahagi pa sya nang report ko.
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a says:

10 years ago

bakit kasi signed int wala namang negative views. pero google iyan alam nila ginagawa nila
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