i just noticed the canadian apple website has the itunes ticker at the bottom, for the contest, and it's going up fast. REALLY fast. thought you'd want to know
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Is this ticker actually accurate? I don't know, but it just seems like its going up at a steady pace.
CoMpX said:
I'm not sure how it's working this time, but I believe that during their last competion, the server would give you the current number sold and approximate rate of buying and then javascript would increase the counter.
It's doing the same thing this time.Oryan said:
Earlier today, I was looking at Apple's site on one of my tabs in IE7, where I'd left it running all night... the counter was up over 993,000,000. When I refreshed the page, it was back in the 992s... so the previous high rate had slowed down a bit. The lesson being, if you're gonna try to actually buy song #1,000,000,000, you better refresh the page to keep the counter current.
Just now I did another refresh, and it jumped from 993,224,000 to 993,323,000 instantly.
clayj said:
I second that, I turned off my AirPort and the counter was still going, so its obviously just making a guess, dang it there goes my luck at spending my $25 gift card accurately.
Yes, Apple's counter is SLOWER, they are several thousand songs behind! look here from this thread.
Check out billiontunescounter.com it is a really useful site!
Check out billiontunescounter.com it is a really useful site!