25,000 Apple iPad pre-orders per hour? "Apple Online Store"Judging from the order numbers, pre-sales are coming in at the rate of 25,000 per hour," Philip Elmer-DeWitt blogs for Fortune.

"The folks who hang out at Investor Village's AAPL Sanity Board are too impatient to wait for Appl to announce sales figures; they much prefer to work them out on their own — in real time," Elmer-DeWitt reports.

"Entering the order numbers associated with their own purchases on a Google spreadsheet, they think they've cracked the code. As of 11:05 a.m. ET — two and a half hours after Apple's online store began taking pre-orders — the group had received 15 confirmations with order numbers as high as 74,000 (the numbers don't necessarily start at 0)," Elmer-DeWitt reports. "'51,000 orders in two hours,' announced Victor Castroll shortly after noon. He's an analyst with Valcent Financial Group and an AAPL Sanity member." Via MacDailyNews .

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  ¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 3/12/2010 03:44:00 PM