text: YouTube said the video - its most watched ever - has been viewed more than 2,147,483,647 times.
  It has now changed the maximum view limit to 9,223,372,036,854,775,808, or more than nine quintillion.
  Gangnam Style became a worldwide hit when it was released in 2012, largely due to the surreal video.
  How do you say 9,223,372,036,854,775,808?
  Nine quintillion, two hundred and twenty-three quadrillion, three hundred and seventy-two trillion, thirty-six billion, eight hundred and fifty-four million, seven hundred and seventy-five thousand, eight hundred and eight.
  Why was Psy nearly too much for YouTube?
  YouTube's counter previously used a 32-bit integer, which is a unit used to represent data in computer architecture. This means the maximum possible views it could count was 2,147,483,647.
  On 1 December, it  posted a statement saying: "We never thought a video would be watched in numbers greater than a 32-bit integer... but that was before we met Psy."
  Google, which owns YouTube, later told website The Verge that engineers "saw this coming a couple months ago and updated our systems to prepare for it".
  YouTube now uses a 64-bit integer for its video counter, which means videos have a maximum viewer count of 9.22 quintillion.
  Psy has yet to comment although news of YouTube's change was posted on his Facebook and Twitter pages.
  The second most-watched video on YouTube - Baby by Justin Bieber - lags behind Gangnam Style by more than a billion views.
target: The music video for South Korean singer Psy's Gangnam Style exceeded YouTube's view limit, prompting the site to upgrade its counter.