Show The internet has not seen quite like Boyle rI Jose A. A Vargas The Washington Post The Internet has not seen anything quite like Susan Boyle whose online popularity is headed straight to the history books The video of Boyles Boyle's performance in the reality show Got Talent has set the record for the number of views in a week and shows no sign of slowing down According to Visible Measures which tracks videos from You Tube and other video- video sharing sites all Boyle- Boyle oriented including videos videos videos- including clips of her television interviews and her recently- recently released rendition of Cry Me Mea a River recorded 10 years ago for a charity CD have generated a total of million views Nearly 20 million of those views came overnight The seven-minute seven video that was first posted on and then widely circulated online easily eclipsed more profile high-profile videos that have been around for months Tina Feys Fey's impersonation of Sarah Palin has clocked in million views said the folks at Visible Measures while President victory speech on election night has generated million views Indeed the sleepless Internet is her the round-the- clock stage and the 47 year 47 year old who has said she's never heard of is the Webs Web's hottest entertainer really the worlds world's singer right now said Yo spokeswoman Julie At any given moment on any particular site someone is passing along Boyle online Online users interviewed said the em emotions summoned by bythe bythe bythe the audition video run the thega thega ga ut from laughter to cynicism to surprise This might sound kind of crazy I know but she's the perfect inspiration for the kind of moment were we're living in in- in she could have chickened out backed away when she heard the laughing but she kept going said Jose Salazar 31 a father of two who manages a restaurant in Las Vegas Some viewers said they were drawn by the one-act- one play quality of the video with a beginning a middle and an end complete with a heroine Boyle obviously and a familiar villain Simon Cowell naturally Others said they were sure it was a hoax only to find themselves watching the video again and again and going online to investigate unfamiliar terms Elaine who What is Les Why did she sing I Dreamed a aDream aDream aDream Dream Mark Thompson was at home watching Got Talent in his living room in Yorkshire Engl England md when Boyle stunned the crowd at Clyde Auditorium in Glasgow Ten minutes after hearing Boyle sing the year old engineer created a channel dedicated to Boyle He called and posted Boyles Boyle's seven- seven minute audition The channel wasn't about me Thompson said in a phone interview Its about Susan A few hours later Will Slack a sophomore at Williams College in Williamstown Mass was intrigued by one of the read most-read articles on Reddit a news aggregator Something about a jaw- jaw dropping performance he remembered its headline reading So he watched Boyles Boyle's audition and after reading news articles on and Sunday Express about Boyle decided she was notable enough for a article Anyone can create a article so long longas as that article is bas based d don on re reliable news sources independent of the subject Slack said At 20 years old hes he's been creating and editing articles since he was 17 Susan Boyle Slack said in a phone interview is definitely worth the article look at what she's done |