[migpwr]

Apple sells 51,000 total items through the Apple store since they started taking pre-orders for the iPad.

[alex_c]

Still, it’s safe to say that the majority of orders placed through the Apple Online Store are for the iPad.

Yeah, I don't really follow the logic there.

[jasonlbaptiste]

majority is anything >50% . there is a big difference between 51% and lets say 85%. We need to stop ignoring these analysts that make up retarded facts or act as if they have an army of people leaking them rumors.

[mlinsey]

Yeah. Assuming orderID's are sequential, you'd at least want a bunch of data bout how many orders per hour there are on a typical day.

[noelchurchill]

tuaw.com reports an average order volume of 15k/day on the apple store

[kvs]

Searching on Twitter yields quite a bit of results for "ipad pre-ordered" May be someone can use the API to get an exact number.

[potatolicious]

The majority of iPad buyers are going to twitter about their purchase?

[Psyonic]

We don't know, but it wouldn't surprise me if the early adopter crowd has a lot of overlap with the twitter crowd. That said, I don't think it's worth trying to estimate sales that way