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Poll: "Top 10 Youtube videos of all-time" - really, is it? or doctored?

1 points by satyajit ↗ HN
Recently came across the following while reading about virality of youtube videos: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/top_10_youtube_videos_of_all_time.php While the 1st one has all the 'virality' aspect to it, I find hard to belive about Avril L's 'Girlfriend' video. Since it was added in Feb 27, 2007, its been viewed over 108,000,000 times - doing a simple math, it comes to 121 times every minute, or 2 views every second (i.e. every day, every night, hour, min, sec since feb 2007). I find it hard to believe. So this poll:

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satyajit
The link: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/top_10_youtube_videos_o... In the main article, it didn't create the hyperlink (why??!! HN bug?)
apgwoz
Not a bug. It's documented in the formatting help (http://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc)

Also documented in the FAQ:

  How do I make a link in a question?

  You can't. (This is to prevent people from using this method as a way of submitting a link, but with their 
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