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Drew Carey bids 25k for @drew -- Cancer gets scared
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. Just to be sure, Olanoff checked with @ev, one of Twitter's founders, who gave his blessing before the bidding began.
If there was ever a time for Drew Barrymore to get a clue about social networking, this is it. Fortunately for Carey's wallet, Barrymore was pretty emphatic on Regis and Kelly when she ranted, "I don't know what Twittering is! [...] People keep trying to explain to me and I'm like, I don't wanna know. I don't wanna know how it works, I don't wanna know how to do it, I don't want to know anything."
Barrymore made the comment in April -- just months into Twitter's meteoric rise. If the crowd of other twittering celebrities haven't softened her, maybe kicking cancer's tail will.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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Paul32 said 4:56AM on 10-04-2009
Why do so many people treat Twitter like it's rocket science or something. OOOHHH typing words!! Scary!!!!
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dosmil said 1:30PM on 10-04-2009
I only wanted to point out that some NGO that claim to be non profit actually pay their top executives wages that match those of a banker.
I dont know about that NGO you mention, but in my experience, specially NGOs to help "fight hunger" etc... do have some people working for them who get paid far higher than you think, unfortunately not all charities are all charity, but I hopesure some are.
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malcarada said 7:28AM on 10-04-2009
I only wanted to point out that some NGO that claim to be non profit actually pay their top executives wages that match those of a banker.
I dont know about that NGO you mention, but in my experience, specially NGOs to help "fight hunger" etc... do have some people working for them who get paid far higher than you think, unfortunately not all charities are all charity, but I hopesure some are.
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Grant Robertson said 3:02PM on 10-04-2009
Wow, you can't even comment on something nice without the "Coalition to Bitch About Twitter" and the "Foundation for Cynics With Internet Access and Marginally Related Social Commentary" coming out of the woodwork to complain.
Can't anyone just be congratulatory of a guy who -- faced with a rough diagnosis -- decided to get active, get out in front of the issue, and raise funds for awareness and research instead of kvetching about imagined situations which -- even you admit in your comment -- may have nothing to do with the matter at hand?
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