I have something similar to twitter's feeds where we load it in real-time. How do i track how many people have seen a tweet? I am not talking about if you go to domain.com/post/32434 and that loads a status. I am talking about AJAX real-time query where one post is being loaded one after the other.
Will Google Analytics or Charbeat have anything that will help fulfill this need for me?
Why not managing your own counter in the database?
I don't really know your criteria, but let say you basically want to count how many times a given tweet was loaded.
Very quickly, I could think of this: The table:
CREATE TABLE tweets_loads(ID_TWEET INT NOT NULL, LOADS BIGINT NOT NULL DEFAULT 0, PRIMARY KEY `ID_TWEET`) ENGINE=InnoDB;
The query at each ajax request:
INSERT INTO tweets_loads (ID_TWEET, LOADS) VALUES (myTweetId, 1)
ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE LOADS = LOADS + 1;
(Assuming mysql)
Run it from php and that's it... Up to you then to check competition between inserts though, but in theory mysql should handle it just well...