"Gangnam Style" the South Korea pop video by Psy has surpassed 2,147,483,647 views which is more than YouTube's original view counter. The award-winning video which was released in 2012. If you haven't seen the video, check it out here. This development has caused the software engineers to update the site to a 64-bit view counter. “We never thought a video would be watched in numbers greater than a 32-bit integer (2,147,483,647 views so far), but that was before we met Psy,” Google said.
The site which was originally based on a 32-bit view counter has now been upgraded to 64 bits, meaning that the views can go as high as 9 quintillion views. This means that individual YouTube views can go as high as 9,223,372,036,854,775,808, to be exact.
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