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10-14-2009, 06:08 PM
http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/TV/10/13/drew.carey.money.twitter/index.html
Drew Olanoff, cancer-fighter and blogger, is auctioning off his enviable Twitter username "@drew" to benefit the LiveStrong foundation. Its value has already been raised to $1 million, thanks to that other Drew -- last name Carey.
"I thought we would find a Drew who would bid $10,000 on the last day and that was it," Olanoff said. "I certainly didn't think Drew Carey would get wind of it."
Get wind he did. After watching his favorite soccer team, the Seattle Sounders, win on October 3, the Cleveland comedian turned to Twitter to share his elation and saw that Olanoff was auctioning off his "@drew" moniker. Full of good vibes, Carey immediately put in a bid.
"I thought it was so much fun, that I bid $25,000," Carey told CNN. "I was in such a good mood that I raised it to $100,000."
Olanoff was taken back by Carey's generosity at the time -- especially considering they'd never "met" until Tuesday, when he sat down with Carey via Skype on CNN.com -- but Carey wasn't done bidding just yet.
In the middle of an interview last week with CBS (the corporation writing Carey's checks, as he's the host of the network's "The Price is Right"), he upped the ante from $100,000 to a cool $1 million if he gets the same amount of followers by midnight on December 31.
Yes, you read that correctly -- Drew Carey plans to give away a million dollars to LiveStrong, if he gets a million Twitter followers by the end of the year.
twitter.com/drewfromtv
Drew Olanoff, cancer-fighter and blogger, is auctioning off his enviable Twitter username "@drew" to benefit the LiveStrong foundation. Its value has already been raised to $1 million, thanks to that other Drew -- last name Carey.
"I thought we would find a Drew who would bid $10,000 on the last day and that was it," Olanoff said. "I certainly didn't think Drew Carey would get wind of it."
Get wind he did. After watching his favorite soccer team, the Seattle Sounders, win on October 3, the Cleveland comedian turned to Twitter to share his elation and saw that Olanoff was auctioning off his "@drew" moniker. Full of good vibes, Carey immediately put in a bid.
"I thought it was so much fun, that I bid $25,000," Carey told CNN. "I was in such a good mood that I raised it to $100,000."
Olanoff was taken back by Carey's generosity at the time -- especially considering they'd never "met" until Tuesday, when he sat down with Carey via Skype on CNN.com -- but Carey wasn't done bidding just yet.
In the middle of an interview last week with CBS (the corporation writing Carey's checks, as he's the host of the network's "The Price is Right"), he upped the ante from $100,000 to a cool $1 million if he gets the same amount of followers by midnight on December 31.
Yes, you read that correctly -- Drew Carey plans to give away a million dollars to LiveStrong, if he gets a million Twitter followers by the end of the year.
twitter.com/drewfromtv