Twitter’s first TV commercial aired Sunday, touting a web page that curates conversations including the hashtag #NASCAR. The commercial left many brands wondering what Twitter had in store for them with the new hashtag pages.

Mashable learned Monday that although this project was a partnership between NASCAR and Twitter, NASCAR had no editorial insight on what appeared on the page, meaning the new hashtag pages are for events, not brands.

Twitter explained in an email that the hashtag event page, launched for Sunday’s 2012 Pocono 400 NASCAR race, was aimed at detailing the race experience and not the NASCAR brand.

The social network employed algorithms and human curation to s…
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