When I first started this post, my intent was to share the first Promoted Tweet I had actually seen (that wasn’t a screen shot in a blog post). However, as I checked into it I realized Twitter had fooled me. Did they get you, too?

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This is actually a Promoted Tweet, that is part of a Promoted Trend – just introduced this week.  As you’ll see later in the post, there are different variations of the Promoted Tweet. And note that they’ve all appeared in the same top spot in the real-time results for Toy Story 3 – they swap out and interchange over time.

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