http://bartgdev.com/articles/2007/09/12/youtubes-faster-rising-star en-us 40 <b>Dev</b>eloping well <b>dev</b>ised applications <p> I don't know if you've linked into this yet but this <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHmvkRoEowc">"Leave Britney Spears Alone</a> alone video, has been insanely popular. I'm not a fan of hers, or defending this guy's rant, and free speach says let him rant.. why not! I'm not particularly interested in spreading the video either. </p> <p> The reason I'm writing about it, is that it's view count is going up incredibly quickly. This video was uploaded yesterday (Sept 11, 2007) When I first saw it on YouTube at 10:30am EST, it already had about 1.4 million views. I checked again now at 6:40 pm EST, and it has <b>2,317,638 views</b>, with 41,266 comments been favorited 5,940 times, and 575 video responses. Keep in mind that YouTube's most popular video of some dude dancing has just over 36+ million views. Way to go Chris Crocker!</p> <p> Check out YouTube's <a href="http://www.youtube.com/rss/global/top_viewed_today.rss">"YouTube :: Most Viewed Videos - Today"</a> list.</p> <p>The closest is <a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=_-631TgPP2s">Kanye West's breakdown</a>, with a measly 834,663 views. </p> <p>So to recap (<i>approx as I don't know what it started with</i>):<br /><br /> 2,317,638 views in 24 hours<br /> 96,568 per hour<br /> 737,638 views in the last 8 hours<br /> 56 commnets per hour<br /> 100 favorited per hour<br /> <br /> <b>Wow!</b> indeed... Wed, 12 Sep 2007 17:57:00 -0500 urn:uuid:c9dffb21-05d3-441a-89fa-c9c2d490a790 Bart http://bartgdev.com/articles/2007/09/12/youtubes-faster-rising-star Thoughts britneyspears alone chriscrocker YouTube