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Obamaphone YouTube video: views don't match number of likes/dislikes
YouTube | 9/27/12 | Me

Posted on 09/27/2012 2:37:55 PM PDT by Born Conservative

I took this screen shot around 5pm Eastern Time, and there were 3,038 likes, 1181 likes, but only 462 views. That would mean that each viewer would like/dislke the video 9 times. (not to mention the very low number of views, given that the link has been on Drudge all afternoon)

Do ya think YouTube/Google is playing with the number counter? (rhetorical question)


TOPICS: Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: google; obamaphone; youtube
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1 posted on 09/27/2012 2:38:00 PM PDT by Born Conservative
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To: Born Conservative

Video link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=tpAOwJvTOio


2 posted on 09/27/2012 2:38:58 PM PDT by Born Conservative
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To: Born Conservative

It’s pretty common, actually. It’s a web thing.

Happens a LOT.


3 posted on 09/27/2012 2:41:05 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: Born Conservative

Youtube likes and dislikes are submitted in real time. If a video is getting slammed the views can take as many as 24hrs to update.


4 posted on 09/27/2012 2:42:04 PM PDT by HenryArmitage (it was not meant that we should voyage far.)
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To: Born Conservative

The views are delayed as youtube filters them to make sure they are “legitimate” views and not bots.


5 posted on 09/27/2012 2:42:04 PM PDT by Williams (No Obama)
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To: Born Conservative
Maybe this phenomenon is the same as the one that allows the Democrats to have 18,000 votes cast in a city of 10,000 registered voters.
6 posted on 09/27/2012 2:42:14 PM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: Born Conservative

Well.. since you claim to be the author of the video, we must assume that is YOU in the video.


7 posted on 09/27/2012 2:43:23 PM PDT by humblegunner (Pablo, being wily, pities the fool.)
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To: humblegunner

Peggy Joseph on Steroids


8 posted on 09/27/2012 2:44:08 PM PDT by GlockThe Vote (The Obama Adminstration: 2nd wave of attacks on America after 9/11)
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To: gaijin

You know what’s really funny about this?

This has obviously been seen millions of times and I’ve had fun following the comments/view count.

Now that it’s been in widespread play for the day and talk radio has beaten it to death the lib responses are priceless.

- The universal service fee is not a tax. Therefore no taxpayer dollars are being used for this program.

- Reagan started the Obamaphone. You know, back when cellphones weighed 10 pounds, were the size of a cinder block and cost $7,000.

- This woman is an actor/actress and this is a setup.

- If you criticize the woman or think she should get a job, you’re racist.

Truly priceless material.


9 posted on 09/27/2012 2:45:19 PM PDT by PittsburghAfterDark
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To: Born Conservative
This happens every time somebody puts up a controversial video that goes viral.

It's not a conspiracy. The counter number always stalls for the first day or so, then catches up.

I have no idea why, but it's a tech issue, not a political plot.

10 posted on 09/27/2012 2:45:40 PM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: Born Conservative

Over 7600 comments as well.


11 posted on 09/27/2012 2:46:11 PM PDT by Slicksadick (Go out on a limb........Its where the fruit is.)
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To: Born Conservative

Romney should go to the debate with Obama, and just start playing this tape, let ALL of America see it, and then ask “Is this the country you want for yourself and for your children” then just walk out the door..this one video speaks louder than anything Romney could say..do you want to live in a Capitalist Society or a Communist one..the choice is yours


12 posted on 09/27/2012 3:10:10 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: dead

not really a tech issue so much as a deterrent. For likes and dislikes they are limited to one per registered user. Hard to spam unless you make a multitude of accounts just to like or dislike.. and the account creation is protected by a CAPTCHA key to make it hard to automate. Views can be as simple as any annon user refreshing a page over and over. So for new/hot videos you dont want to show view count going up every time you spam a reload because youtube doesnt want to show how they determine when to stop giving a spamming IP credit for view counts. They basically don’t want to give away the methods they use for determining spamming IP’s.


13 posted on 09/27/2012 3:12:01 PM PDT by HenryArmitage (it was not meant that we should voyage far.)
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To: humblegunner

What’s your phone number? I’d like to call you on my free ObamaPhone....


14 posted on 09/27/2012 3:12:17 PM PDT by Born Conservative
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To: Born Conservative

No issue. Google analytics lag 12-18 hours typically.

As a good rule of thumb, assume that views or visits are accurate through end-of-day yeseterday.

It’s the way it works. Google/Youtube stats are not realtime. Comments and votes are.


15 posted on 09/27/2012 3:25:45 PM PDT by sbMKE
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To: Born Conservative

Reminds me of “Banana Phone”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S83qcVr2xjg&feature=related

Here’s my quick attempt at a rewrite:

Poop-poo-ba-poop!
Poop-poo-ba-poop!

Ring ring ring ring ring ring ring Obama phone
Ring ring ring ring ring ring ring Obama phone
I’ve got this feeling, so appealing,
It sends a tingle down my leg - Ting!

Ring ring ring ring ring ring ring Obama phone
Ding dong ding dong ding dong ding Obama phone.
He tosses lunches, I’ve got my hunches,
Marxist! Communist!
Irregular, Deceiver, Occupier!!

Ring ring ring ring ring ring ring Obama phone
Poop-poo-ba-poop!
Ping pong ping pong ping pong ping Obama phone
It’s all baloney, he’s just a phony
My crappier Obamier phone!

Don’t need quarters, don’t need dimes,
Obama gives me all that’s mine!
Don’t buy a computer or TV,
I’ll just take yours all the time!

I’ll call for pizza. I’ll call for dog.
I’ll call the White House, live high on the hog!


16 posted on 09/27/2012 3:37:34 PM PDT by 21twelve (So I [God] gave them over to their stubborn hearts to follow their own devices. Psalm 81:12)
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