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matt819

(10,749 posts) Mon Sep 17, 2012, 09:52 PM Sep 2012

"The story" is all over the place now

All the major news sites, forums, blogs, etc. Commentary on salon, slate, huffpo, etc.

Why, then is Youtube showing the same 338 views I saw when I first saw the video a few hours ago?

What gives?

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"The story" is all over the place now (Original Post) matt819 Sep 2012 OP

Strange, I viewed it and it stayed the same. n/t RKP5637 Sep 2012 #1

I honestly don't care, I am just happy the story is every where - the Emperor has no clothes, hee - hollysmom Sep 2012 #2

Strange stats. Guess it won't trend. valerief Sep 2012 #3

Youtube is always slow to update the view count mikiturner Sep 2012 #4

Nothing to worry about. Enigmatis Sep 2012 #5

HA! Jinx. joshcryer Sep 2012 #7

This was really informative! Thanks for posting, I always wondered how they RKP5637 Sep 2012 #8

Google takes YouTube views very seriously. Numberphile explains it here: joshcryer Sep 2012 #6

RKP5637

(67,111 posts)

1. Strange, I viewed it and it stayed the same. n/t

Reply to matt819 (Original post)

Mon Sep 17, 2012, 09:55 PM

Sep 2012

hollysmom

(5,946 posts)

2. I honestly don't care, I am just happy the story is every where - the Emperor has no clothes, hee -

Reply to matt819 (Original post)

Mon Sep 17, 2012, 09:56 PM

Sep 2012

sorry, it just makes me smile to have been correct (never right)

valerief

(53,235 posts)

3. Strange stats. Guess it won't trend.

Reply to matt819 (Original post)

Mon Sep 17, 2012, 10:00 PM

Sep 2012

338 views
no statistics available

Published on Sep 17, 2012 by MotherJonesVideo

No description available.

1,957 likes, 411 dislikes

mikiturner

(592 posts)

4. Youtube is always slow to update the view count

Reply to matt819 (Original post)

Mon Sep 17, 2012, 10:02 PM

Sep 2012

Seeing as there are almost 3000 comments, you can be sure it's been seen by more than 338 views.

Enigmatis

(2 posts)

5. Nothing to worry about.

Reply to matt819 (Original post)

Mon Sep 17, 2012, 10:09 PM

Sep 2012

This link explains why videos sometimes stop at 300 some views:

&feature=player_embedded#!

Basically, Youtube makes sure people aren't gaming the system with "counterfeit" views. It usually takes several hours before this check clears and the view count updates.

joshcryer

(62,276 posts)

7. HA! Jinx.

Reply to Enigmatis (Reply #5)

Mon Sep 17, 2012, 10:10 PM

Sep 2012

RKP5637

(67,111 posts)

8. This was really informative! Thanks for posting, I always wondered how they

Reply to Enigmatis (Reply #5)

Mon Sep 17, 2012, 10:27 PM

Sep 2012

were calculated.

joshcryer

(62,276 posts)

6. Google takes YouTube views very seriously. Numberphile explains it here:

Reply to matt819 (Original post)

Mon Sep 17, 2012, 10:09 PM

Sep 2012

This way people can't use bots to make the views go up. Each view is quite unique.

The fact that it's 338 is epic because you aren't going to get that many views without a lot of people watching at the same time because the view count "stops" at 300. So that means that 38 people saw it simultaneously right when it hit 300 views. Massive surge of views at that snapshot in time.

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