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Drew Carey bids 25k for @drew -- Cancer gets scared

Download Squad Oct 04 09

Filed under: Web services, Microblogging

I've written before about Download Squad friend, Drew Olanoff, and his creative way of kicking cancer in the behind. Count up one more point for Drew and his fight -- Drew Carey just bid 25K for his Twitter name, @drew. All proceeds of the auction, which ends on November 9th, will go directly to The Lance Armstrong Foundation - Livestrong. Better still, if Drew Carey gets 100k Twitter followers before the auction ends, he'll quadruple his bid to $100,000. While Twitter's Terms of Service expressly forbids selling your Twitter name for personal gain, there is no express prohibition against selling it for charity. Full story...

Tagged: celebrities, charity, clue, crowd, drew barrymore, drew carey, ev, followers,

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