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Mr_Brightside_@

Mr_Brightside_@

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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
 
ooh, i had forgotten all about the giveaway thing! i had better get watching it and hopefully i will get lucky!

well one can but hope!
 
Is this ticker actually accurate? I don't know, but it just seems like its going up at a steady pace.
 
CoMpX said:
Is this ticker actually accurate? I don't know, but it just seems like its going up at a steady pace.
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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.
 
Oryan 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.
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It's doing the same thing this time.

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:
It's doing the same thing this time.
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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.
 
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