I watched it for 10 minutes, which consisted of about 30 clips. 70% of them were bad quality music videos, the rest uninteresting other content, partly in spanish. The "best" one that came across was the recent Chrome Ad. Even voting down every music video just caused more of them to come up. Sometimes the videos had no sound for some reason.
Yeah this is nothing more than a simple technological stunt. What's the value in this, and to whom? Just because a bunch of random clicks on Twitter or Youtube think something is popular doesn't equate to meaningfulness to me.
We agree, and we're working on making the streams personal and more meaningful. But Twitter popularity is an interesting proxy for overall popularity, and we've seen some stuff bubble up much faster than other video sites. It's a work in progress.