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by alex_c 5939 days ago
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.

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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.
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.
tuaw.com reports an average order volume of 15k/day on the apple store
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.
The majority of iPad buyers are going to twitter about their purchase?
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