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If it's actually spot on, it's a miracle. I got the counter and the title both showing 3,690,744 when I first opened the link - so how unlikely is this actuall
by danbruc 7y ago
If it's actually spot on, it's a miracle.
I got the counter and the title both showing 3,690,744 when I first opened the link - so how unlikely is this actually? Probably not really too unlikely. Or I got really lucky.
EDIT: Thinking about it, as YouTube probably updates the view count only every couple of seconds or minutes it might actually be spot on most of the time if the title gets updated at about the same frequency.
- gh123man 7y agoSame here. However I think that the way he is communicating information in this video is meant to capture your attention not just now, but when this video is visited months or years from now. It will be very cool for viewers to stumble across this video when it doesn't work, effectively proving his point.
- tehwebguy 7y agoMy guess is it's more likely some YouTube employees hacked around this as a show of "support" for YouTubers?
- diggan 7y agoMore likely they have a cache for the views with a longer expiration time set than the update interval of Scott's script.
- darkstar999 7y agoThat's what I thought too. He probably got a rate limit lifted.
- hombre_fatal 7y agoThat's unnecessary. The slower the view count updates (and it's very slow), then the more likely the title is to be correct.
- thomasahle 7y agoI think his point was more that it won't increase every time you refresh the page. But then neither will the actual view counter.
- duxup 7y agoSame here, they matched.
- kube-system 7y agoYouTube's view counts update at a notoriously slow rate. It's not hard to find new videos with more likes/dislikes than views.
- diggan 7y ago> new videos with more likes/dislikes than views That doesn't mean that the view counter is slow. Views are only counted when you watch the video for X seconds (or percentage complete, can't remember) while you can like/dislike the video by going to the page, clicking the like/dislike then close the page before the view would even count.