Events like the recent meteor strike in Russia that took place on Friday, February 15, are usually a once in a life time experience. According to reports the massive meteor has been the largest asteroid to land on earth for a hundred years and has rightly received a lot of attention from all around the world. This being the post internet age many would expect the video of the meteor to be a big draw online but not many expected it to become the biggest video ever. Visible Measures, a social analysis service, reports that the different videos of the meteor uploaded to YouTube and DailyMotion got 130 million views over the weekend. By just looking at the the two largest online video services, Visible Measures was able to show that the event spawned the biggest viral growth for any online video event. Visible Measures has pinpointed 400 videos that have been uploaded to the web since the event with 160 of those videos grabbing 100,000 views from online users.
Russia Today’s video coverage of the event was both terrifying and exhilarating enough to grab 26.7 million views which was by far the biggest share of views online. Other personal videos from eyewitnesses came from dashboard cameras that are installed in many cars in Russia for insurance purposes.
The event is only a couple of days old so really does not have the big number of some other videos on services like YouTube. The meteor event has only one-tenth of the views of the massively popular Gangnam Style by musician PSY. The songs 1 billion views make it the most watched content on Google owned YouTube. However, nothing compares to the extremely fast viral nature of the meteor event that has no parallel. The events fast growth has quickly leap-frogged past other videos including PSY, Kony 2012, the Harlem Shake and British singing sensation Susan Boyle.
Source: Mashable
Image: The Guardian
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