Question

How can I show a users’ activity count on site title that refreshes automatically like
Facebook, LinkedIn, StackOverflow etc.

e.g. in linkedIn I usually see following title on browser to indicate one new activity updated on linkedIn wall.

(1) Imran Rizvi | Linkedin 

I was searching for this question but did not find any solution.

I would if appreciate if anybody could let me know how to do this and with best practice.

Answer 1

You will have to use timer like control which calls a javascript function after a fixed interval like javascript setInterval. In this function you have to send ajax call and get the updates and render the updates with javascript

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