Quote Originally Posted by Mattyhitman View Post
Just spoke to one of our bods, he's not aware of any changes to what Google are doing that would affect realtime, it's mainly the local search facility the changes are being made. He say's it may have something to do with your system, have ya made any changes lately to ya browser system, or package ya use?
Wikipedia lists the answer here:
Google Real-Time Search - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Apparently it was after a deal with Twitter ended

It's a shame, I mean twitter has it's uses in much the same way for me but Google real-time was more accessible for me and drew from a more diverse resource.