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Drew Carey Bids $25k in Charity Twitter Name Auction

by Terrence O'Brien on October 5, 2009 at 04:21 PM

Drew Carey Bids $25k in Charity Twitter Name Auction

Twitter enthusiast Drew Olanoff has been raising money for the Lance Armstrong Foundation and Livestrong by allowing netizens to blame his Hodgkin's Lymphoma for all the ills of world. Apparently, this hasn't enough for the philanthropist, so he has decided to auction off his Twitter account, @Drew, for charity. Olanoff had to clear the sale with Evan Williams, one of the founders of Twitter, since the site expressly forbids the sale of usernames for financial gain. Since the money will be going to charity, Olanoff was given an exception and bidding for @Drew began.

Having decided he wanted to trade in his clunky @DrewFromTV account, Drew Carey put in an impressive $25,000 bid for the account. Ten minutes later, the 'Price is Right' host upped the ante, declaring, "I'll up my donation to LIVESTRONG to $100k if I get 100k followers by Nov 9th" (the date that the auction ends). Since making that declaration Saturday night, @DrewFromTV has seen his list of followers more than double from roughly 13,000 to over 32,000 as of Monday morning.


Even if Carey doesn't make it to 100,000 followers, Livestrong is still in for a sizable influx of cash. But there is over a month left. And if @DrewFromTV keeps on at this rate, he'll cross the 100,000 mark early next week. [From: DownloadSquad]

Tags: auction, cancer, charity, Drew Carey, drew olanoff, DrewCarey, DrewOlanoff, Livestrong, top, twitter, twitter account, TwitterAccount

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