Youtube video view counts are unreliable

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:

youtube view counts

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.

Comments

Well yes Obama Osama Che loves the ideals of the third world monkey people, the only thing the people of the world want is to take down your homeland your life your ways and to put you inside a third world monkey hell.Obama will help in all areas but so will McCain surely you must see that fact of life? The fact is He may win this so called race for president and if that becomes fact may God help you all who are not some monkey person. FU Barack

It seems to only update once a day unless you're getting serious hits. Even a clip getting about 10k hits only seems to update maybe 2 times a day. I've noticed this as well.