Twitter like notification when new posts are made I was wondering if there was a module out there that could replicate something to what Twitter do when you have new Tweets you haven't seen in your timeline (so a notification of how many new items there are without refreshing the page).

See examples of what I mean, not the best at explaining things. preferably without using node.js as it hasn't worked for me so far!

Thanks in advance
You can use nodeJS to push live updates to your website without refreshing it, thus you also can count the new items.

There is a module that integrates with nodeJS: https://www.drupal.org/project/nodejs

You will need SSH access to make this work I think.