Twitter’s First Trending Topics Appears As Advertisement For Toy Story 3

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.

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 top result is always a Promoted Tweet from Disney/Pixar.

There’s not much more to it. TechCrunch notes that the ad is not location-specific, though that could (and probably will) be implemented in the future. It’s a nice idea that the purchased trending topic falls at the bottom of the list, below the organic trends, and that big honking yellow button makes sure nobody is confused about the nature of that topic.

Of course, we’re left to wonder why Disney/Pixar chose Toy Story 3 to be first. It’s freaking Toy Story 3–it was going to be a trending topic anyway, right?

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WordPress 3.0 Is Finally Available

This is one of the major releases, and as a consequence many new features were introduced. For example, the default theme has been changed, there are developer APIs now, the admin interface was updated and so on. You can watch the video below to get an idea of what is new.

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FaceBook Earned 800$ Million In 2009 Says A Report

Facebook’s revenue in 2009 was nearly $800 million, and the company turned a part of it into a solid net profit, according to Reuters.

The number is significantly higher than earlier estimates of $500 million revenue in 2009, and even the projected $710 million revenue in 2010. Facebook, as usual, declines to comment on any of these numbers, but we know that somewhere in 2009. Facebook became cash-flow positive.

“They are downplaying their performance. There’s no upside in getting people’s expectations high, it’s always better to go low,” said one of Reuters’ sources. It could be true: if Facebook is heading towards an IPO, it’s definitely better to be able to show big growth than to boast high numbers now, and end up unable to beat them after.

If these new estimates are true, this is great news for Facebook, which has been on the ugly side of a privacy-related scandal that ended up reaching the cover of Time Magazine and had Mark Zuckerberg, the site’s founder and CEO, apologizing for the company’s misdeeds. As long as the earnings and growth is strong – and according to the latest numbers from Compete, Facebook is still growing quite fast – Facebook will have time to tinker and experiment with privacy to find out how far it can go before causing a backlash.

Well the above report was obtained and gained by Mashable ,well if I tell you in simple and little words Facebook just made 800$ Million dollars last year and they are still growing quite quickly.In my personal opinion if Facebook gets that much huge traffic and if still they don’t earn that much well then that is something to think about isn’t it ?

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