"Social Media Counter"

So I found this today and I thought it was interesting-- based on data found by a researcher that the article only describes at "Gary," a counter was made that shows a whole bunch of "real-time" numbers on social media and many other related users. I wish I could say I had more information on this sketchball "Gary" guy, but I can't find anything else on him or his research. I assume he took averages and based on these he has the counters going up, sort of like the birth/death statistic things. Someone doesn't ACTUALLY die every few seconds, it's just that over time it averages out to be one every few seconds.



http://www.techtified.com/2009/10/growth-of-social-media-in-real-time-hard-data/