MillionDollarDrew: Drew Carey’s $1 Million Twitter Username Bid Gets a Website

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milliondollardrew We’ve reported on the story about Drew Olanoff, who was diagnosed with cancer earlier this year and started a campaign to raise money for LIVESTRONG, auctioning the Twitter name @drew to the highest bidder. Drew Carey bid $25,000 for the name, and additionally said he’ll donate $100,000 (if he managed to reach 100,000 followers at his Twitter account, @drewfromtv, by Nov. 9th), and then raised the bid to 1 million dollars if he can reach 1 million followers by the end of the year.

Reaching one million followers is no small feat, so Drew Olanoff built a website, located at milliondollardrew.com, to promote the campaign. Visually, it’s somewhat similar to the old Million Dollar Homepage (anyone still remember that project?), only instead of tiny pixelated images, it consists of Twitter images.

We’ve no doubt that the project will be a success. Carey said that he’ll donate as many dollars as @drewfromtv gets followers, so even if it doesn’t make one million, LIVESTRONG will still get a hefty donation, but we certainly hope it will.

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