1. A system for providing a seat map, comprising: computing hardware; a non-transitory medium storing instructions that when executed by the computing hardware, cause the computing hardware to perform operations comprising: providing a first user interface that includes an interactive seat map to each user in a plurality of users, wherein the first user interface enables each user in the plurality of users to identify a particular seat within a venue and request a ticket for the particular seat; detecting one or more first user inputs, received via the first user interface, that identifies a particular seat within a venue and that requests a ticket for the particular seat for an event; identifying a first ticket for the event that corresponds to the particular seat; enabling the first user in the plurality of users to purchase the first ticket; determining that user activity by the plurality of users is interfering with providing, to a plurality of user terminals, substantially real-time updates to an interactive seat map; at least partly in response to determining that user activity is interfering with providing, to the plurality of user terminals, substantially real-time updates to the interactive seat map: providing a second user interface to a second user, wherein the second user interface enables a second user to identify a characteristic of a seat or ticket but does not enable the second user to identify a particular seat.