Asking for your suggestions and assistance.

[Ski]

Recently, I made a short film as a joke for my friend and put it on YouTube. Soon afterwards, I noticed that even refreshes from the same user count as views of the video. Using this knowledge, I devised a plan.

I've made a simple HTML page, which loads my video in an iframe and reloads every ten seconds. This adds up to 8,640 views a day. Not satisfied with that, I found that the video with the most views all time has around 30,000,000. Doing some simple arithmetic, I found that if I were to get 1,000 people to run my page in the background, I would surpass this number in four days.

But the problem is how to get these 1,000 people. This is why I'm asking for your suggestions. I would also appreciate it if those of you with a high-speed connection would download my HTML file and run it day and night and try to enlist the help of your friends. I'll try to link back to PPT to support this site, too.

So, if anyone knows how to get the help of a thousand people quickly, please suggest away. =)

(If this shouldn't be here, sorry, but it didn't seem to fit perfectly anywhere.)

[theonlysaneone]

The problem you'll run into is that nobody (including me) wants a page running in the background that will slow down your computer. After all, you're speaking to restockers, flash gamers, wiz snipers, and a whole bunch of other "er"s. I wonder if it counts beased on how many times the video is loaded, or how many times the page comes up. If it's the latter, maybe you could make a page that doesn't load the video but just increases the counter.

[Ski]

The problem you'll run into is that nobody (including me) wants a page running in the background that will slow down your computer. After all, you're speaking to restockers, flash gamers, wiz snipers, and a whole bunch of other "er"s. I wonder if it counts beased on how many times the video is loaded, or how many times the page comes up. If it's the latter, maybe you could make a page that doesn't load the video but just increases the counter.

The actual video must play for at least one second, and the only to do that automatically is to load the page. One could, however, only run the page when the computer isn't being used if the speed is a concern.

[o_0]

You could make the refresh rate twice as fast.

[Paul]

Even if he did increase the refresh rate down to refreshing every second (which would probably kill his server), he'd only get 2,592,000 views in a 30 day month.

He'd need to do it for an entire year to get 35 million. Said top video would have increased anyways.

[Dragonfire]

That all would work, but then there's the problem with YouTube finding out and possibly deleting your video.