I use this tool as an up-to-the-second report of any particular subject, topic, or news feature. Realtime uses Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, MySpace, etc social media posts from everywhere around the world. "How are these social networks going to provide for me anything worth looking at that would be considered news-worthy or for my own serious research", you may be asking. With this application, I can get instant updates and news not only from news publications, but even from people associated with the news event or person. If I am keeping up to date with any major event for my students, this is a great tool to help me with that. I can then keep my students informed. Each post also provides links to other articles and publications that can provide more useful information and may introduce you to a new favorite news source. Realtime is live and auto-refreshes, so you will receive any new update as soon as it happens. It even tells you how long ago the post was updated; in days, hours, minutes, and seconds. You may want to refresh your browser periodically if Realtime is kept open for an extended period of time, just to ensure that your live feed is continuous.
You may find that some of the posts become a bit redundant (as anything in society), however you do find some gold nuggets of material. You can, also, view the Timeline on the right of the Google Realtime page where it will indicate peaks of activity by time. Click anywhere on the Timeline to go back in time to view past updates where update activity peaks.
The video explains more of Realtime's features and how to customize your Realtime search.
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