How accurate is Youtube’s Sort by Count feature?
March 13th, 2008 Posted in YouTubePretty accurate if is it is less than 100,000 is my guess based on the article over at NME.com with the “Music is my hot sex” video by CSS breaking 105 million views. CSS stands for Cansei De Ser Sexy and their music ain’t so sexy…. It is reminiscent of 80’s sad MTV days.
Honestly the video is incredibly lame but some YouTube hacker just helped the video get amazing real publicity. Do you think the hacker’s goals worked to bring attention the video. I do believe so.
Did the advertisement with Ipod bring them all of these views….
You can tell if a video is legitimate in it’s numbers based on the comment count. The average comment count on YouTube is 590:1. For every 5900 views you expect 10 comments per Andy Baio of YouTube. This video has a ration of 21,487:1. Suggesting a program or bot did it. Of course we all know this has been going on for some time especially to help the numbers of view counts for presidential elections. Could this be the reason YouTube has removed the sort by view count?
