Twitter's First Trending Topic Ad Appears, for Toy Story 3

[image error]Twitter's new ad platform has been a little slow to roll out. Promoted Tweets are already in the system, but those popular trending topics have only today been penetrated by ads. Of course, we've been debating this for a few days now, so let's see how they look.

On Twitter's homepage, the right-hand column that houses the trending topics now includes an eleventh in the list: Toy Story 3, branded with a prominent yellow button. Clicking the link brings up a search for "Toy Story 3," and the...