pedropsr16
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- May 2, 2009
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THE TRUE EXPLANATION ABOUT THE NEW SYSTEM
In response to all the complains about the frozen counters, one of YouTube tech supports, Timmy, posted the following statement on behalf of YouTube:
March 3, 2009
Hi all,
We?ve made a change in our public-facing view counts across the site that will enable us to consistently reflect what is considered a ?view,? based upon video consumption, video streaming and spam filtering. This only affects view counts from February 25 moving forward.
Implementing this change also caused view count updates to slow down a bit in general; many people have noticed this and we?re aware of the issue.
Thanks,
- Timmy
Hi all,
We?ve made a change in our public-facing view counts across the site that will enable us to consistently reflect what is considered a ?view,? based upon video consumption, video streaming and spam filtering. This only affects view counts from February 25 moving forward.
Implementing this change also caused view count updates to slow down a bit in general; many people have noticed this and we?re aware of the issue.
Thanks,
- Timmy
So, youtube addmits having a new view counting system.
The new system basically freezes the view counter of every video (around 300) that is getting views to fast, then, youtube
analyzes the video to find out if the views are real or if they were inflated. If they were infladed, the counter gets stuked until real views overcome the inflated ones; if the views were real, the counter is updated.
That's why, for example, the new smosh video released yesterday had the counter stuked at 320, and it was now (after youtube analysis) updated to the real number of views (200,000), the same happened to the new fred's video.
So, every video's views will be stuked around 300, either you bot it or not, at least until youtube checks if the video is actually popular or not, probably based on the comments, ratings... etc...
You cannot freeze the view counting of a popular video by increasing it's views, becouse it will alwaws have many ratings, comments and much more.
Now, the only way to increase views is to do it very slowly, maybe a new software that runs in the system tray everytime the computer starts and increases 1 or 2 views a minute, so the counter doesen't get stuked, because if it does, it will probably be like that a long time...