Here's an example of how you can't rely on Youtube's view counts for their videos. Not only has the view count for the Obama Che Guevara video I uploaded yesterday not budged at all from this morning until now, but the "Sites Linking to This Video" section shows 52 more clicks than the view count shown just above it:

I don't suggest getting paranoid about this, but at the same time I'd be surprised to learn that some contributors aren't on the "fast track" and that some are on the "slow or worse" track.
UPDATE: Around the morning of the 13th the view counts suddenly started working, and it since went on to get over 11,000 views and briefly hit the 40th or so most watched video of the day. I realize that YT has millions of videos and they only have so much throughput, but if they can update the sites linking figures and generate the most-watched lists they can certainly improve things a bit.
Posted to Miscellania at February 12, 2008 05:17 PM
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