However, how much you know about this world's largest video-sharing site's? Do you know what's most viewed video? Do you know who the names of its founder? Do you know how many YouTube links in tweets every minute?
There are a lot of data, information and interesting statistics that can be learned from YouTube. To that end, the following 10 facts both interesting and amazing about YouTube.
10. Game Eggs 'Snake' Easter YouTube
YouTube has a funny Easter eggs (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1IzM...layer_embedded).
that lets you play games in the Snake-esque video window. Enjoy!
9. Most Viewed Videos, Likes and Favorites
Without counting the music videos that have licensing restrictions, and often only U.S. chanel on YouTube, the most viewed video along the mass is 'Charlie bit my finger' that has hit 283,405,051 views and will continue to grow.
If the U.S. VEVO music video sites are also counted, the winner was Justin Beiber while singing 'Baby'. This video has more than 466 million hits and counting.
8. YouTube Social Statistics
YouTube social media-related statistics are very impressive. YouTube said that, on average there are 400 tweets per minute which contains a link YouTube. Meanwhile, up more than 150 years equals a YouTube video views every day.
7. Statistics astonishing YouTube
In February 2011, YouTube has 490 million unique users per month worldwide. It is estimated, the number of hits each month to reach 92 billion pages. We spend about 2.9 billion hours on YouTube a month or over 325 thousand years.
Not to mention the statistic that is just for web site YouTube, to a video posted or viewed via mobile devices have not been added.
6. YouTube Annual April Fools
Over the last three years, YouTube has millions of users to work on every April Fools Day. The reason is a classic, every video on the actual site's home page Rickroll. In 2009, YouTube make the site was reversed.
In 2010, for efforts to reduce the bandwidth was introduced mode 'TEXTp' that translate the video into text. Let's see what this will dilkukannya in 2011.
5. First Rickroll
The first example 'Rickroll' appeared on YouTube in 2007. Apparently, it was a joke evolution '4 chan ', which originally was the users' duckrolled' which leads to a duck on wheels. Now, Rickroll become the most common practical jokes online.
4. First At First YouTube Video
The first video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=jNQXAC9IVRw) who ever uploaded to YouTube is not the classic video.
This video was made Yakov Lapitsky at San Diego Zoo. Jawed Karim is a video display in front of the elephant cage. This video alone got as many as 4,282,497 hits since its online debut on April 23, 2005.
3. YouTube Causes Problems For Utube
YouTube.com domain names registered during Valentine's Day 2005. This causes a huge misunderstanding for the Universal Tube & Rollform Equipment, based in Perrysburg, Ohio. The domain name them 'utube.com' was overwhelmed with traffic from people who try to spell the name phonetically the video site.
Manufacturing company was later sued YouTube because they claim its broken because of YouTube, but the demand was rejected. Now, it seems that Universal Tube & Rollform Equipment defeated and the site was moved into utubeonline.com business. While the original utube.com a video landing page theme bad speller.
2. Initially, YouTube is a Dating Site
Trio founders did not immediately have the concept of YouTube. According to legend, YouTube began as a video dating site called 'Tune In Hook Up' that reportedly influenced HotorNot.
The three founders ultimately decided not to take that road. Inspiration YouTube as it is known today is credited to two different events. First, the inability Karim find video Janet Jackson 'malfunction clothes' and second, when Hurley and Chen was unable to share videos dinner party because of the limitations of email attachments.
1. YouTube paypal Role in Creation
YouTube was created by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim in 2005. The three founders had known each other from working together on a pioneering Internet business, paypal. In fact, Hurley designed the logo paypal after reading the Wired article about the online payment company.
Initially, YouTube get funding through the bonus received from the eBay buy-out of paypal. You could argue that if no paypal then there would be no YouTube.
