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What's Your City Watching on YouTube?
A new tool shows the geography of Internet distraction.
As if watching YouTube weren't enough of a distraction, you can now track exactly what everyone else is watching on YouTube. Earlier this week the video site launched the YouTube Trends Maps — a geographic display of who's watching what in cities across the United States:
The Trends Map displays viewing and sharing behavior among registered users on the YouTube Dashboard within the past 12-to-24 hours. YouTube says it surveyed only those U.S. metropolitan regions large enough to return reliable results during this period. A quick count of the map shows roughly 150 cities in all.