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Real Time Social Tracking Goes Live

Forget about those national debt clocks. Blogger Gary Hayes has created a continuously updating widget, which displays the real-time use and adoption of various social media platforms and applications. See how many blog postings were published in the last five seconds; how many people have joined Facebook; how much money has been spent on virtual goods; how many videos watched on YouTube; how many tweets sent via Twitter; etc. While such data is fascinating, and could come in handy during, say, a client pitch, what we'd like to see in real time is how much revenue each social media service and platform is generating.

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