TV hostess, singer, and supermodel RuPaul* was at the Red Arrow Diner in Manchester, NH this morning. Why you might ask? She told Politico, ”I’m going to N.H. on a mission to spread love and set the record straight: contrary to recent reports, I am not Ron Paul. And I am not running for president of the United States. I hope to meet Ron Paul in person so we can be seen together to put the rumors to rest once and for all.”

*I have to admit I had to use Google to determine exactly who this individual was .

Mashable has a huge round-up of year-end 2011 Facebook stats. Most popular memes, movies, sport teams, shared news stories, you name it. Interesting read.

Twitter’s long-awaited self-serve ad platform was quietly introduced in November with a “handful” of advertisers, according to the company.

The program, which Twitter announced in April 2010, is available to anyone with a credit card who wants to take advantage of Promoted Products. However, the option isn’t yet open to the public.

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Twitter has indeed been taking its time with the initiative. A year ago, the company rolled out a turn-key advertising solution that lets marketers express their interest in advertising. However, such potential advertisers were not able to actually buy ads until last month. The timing of the self-serve ad platform was not a surprise. Twitter CEO Dick Costolo has stated that the company planned to introduce such a program before year’s end.

At this point it is important to note that eMarketer estimates that Twitter generated $45 million from ad sales in 2010 and will earn around $139.5 million this year. So clearly with a few hundred million users there is a ton of upside here for Twitter if they can figure out a ad business model that just remotely works.