Gangnam style busts youtube video counter

“We never thought a video would be watched in numbers greater than a 32-bit integer (=2,147,483,647 views), but that was before we met PSY. ‘Gangnam Style’ has been viewed so many times we have to upgrade!” These words are not mine but the youtube google plus post which mentions that gangnam style had got actually more views than the actual number of views shown.

The problem was that google was using a 32-bit integer to represent the number of video view counter.The number of views that gangnam style were actually more than the range of 32-bit integer. So to correct the thing, the people at youtube have now shifted to using a 64-bit integer that has an astonishing limit of 9,223,372,036,854,775,808.