'Gangnam Style' has managed to break YouTube's view counter, after achieving over two billion views.

Because the 2012 pop song by Psy reached 2,147,483,647 views - a number greater than a 32-bit integer - the hit-counter could no longer work.

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The problem has since been fixed, with YouTube admitting that it never thought a video would gain so many views.

YouTube said: "We never thought a video would be watched in numbers greater than a 32-bit integer (=2,147,483,647 views), but that was before we met Psy.

"'Gangnam Style' has been viewed so many times we have to upgrade!"



YouTube also added an animation to the 'Gangman Style' video page, making light of the temporary problem.

"Hover over the counter in Psy's video to see a little math magic and stay tuned for bigger and bigger numbers on YouTube," they said.

If hovered over, the hit-counter starts to spin first, before venturing into negative numbers.

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