What is your response, when something which you guess can never take place, actually happens? You would buzz around all day long thinking that how can this happen. PSY’s Gangnam Style Video has shocked every particular person, including the YouTube server. YouTube is in thoughts that how can a video cross the magical 32-Bit Integer record. It was in 2012, when a hilarious horsey dance video of a Korean rapper was released, since then people are dying to see the video again and again. The video has become a viral perception. When it crossed 500 million views, everyone was surprised, then, it crossed 1-billion view record and even the rapper was surprised. The rapper back then said that, “I don’t remember when Gangnam Style video broke the record of 1-billion views, but I do recall thinking How did I ever make such a record?” But now after a successful series of surprises, it was YouTube who was surprised with a whooping 32-Bit Integer viz. 2,147,483,647 views.
Here is what Youtube has to say about this record —
Recently, YouTube posted that PSY’s Gangnam Style video has crossed the 32-Bit Integer record which was never ever expected. After witnessing such response from the viewers, YouTube has now decided to upgrade its views section to a 64-Bit Integer viz. 9,223,372,036,854,775,808 views. After giving us a series of surprises, I guess the next target of Gangnam Style video would be reaching the 64-Bit Integer Mark! Expect the unexpected!
If you are not technical and you don’t know about 32 bit integer or 64 bit integer then you need not to worry about it much. You can just think that Youtube never expected Max views can cross – 2,147,483,647 number and had set it as Max number. Youtube counter crashed after this number and they had to increase it to higher number. Now it can support till 9,223,372,036,854,775,808 views.