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How Drew Carey vowed $1 million for the LiveStrong Foundation
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So what is Drew Carey's new Twitter account worth? He's couting on it being valued at $1 per follower, and if one million people follow the comedian/Price Is Right host's feed on Twitter, Carey will donate $1 million to the LiveStrong Foundation, Lance Armstrong's nonprofit organization that unites and educates people in the fight against cancer.
It started when Drew Olanoff, a cancer-fighter and blogger, auctioned his Twitter username (@drew).
"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.
The celebrity's charitable mood was perhaps bolstered by a soccer team, that being the Seattle Sounders of Major League Soccer. Carey is a co-owner of the team, which defeated the Columbus Crew on October 3. The victory was needed to keep the inaugural Sounders' playoff hopes alive. Carey put in a bid after the game.
Olanof had no idea his Twitter handle could be worth anything near that amount of money.
"I thought we would find a Drew who would bid $10,000 on the last dy and that was it," he told CNN. "I certainly didn't think Drew Carey would get wind of it."
After Carey's $100,000 bid, he went even higher, announcing in an interview with CBS that if one million people follow his Twitter feed by the end of the year, he would give away $1 million.
Olanoff set up the facetious website www.BlameDrewsCancer.com, where tweeters go to blame his cancer for, well, anything. Armstrong, the seven-time Tour de France champion and LiveStrong founder, blamed his broken collarbone suffered last spring on it.
Olanoff has been diagnosed with Hodgkins Lymphoma. His last chemo treatment is scheduled for Nov. 2. He turns 30 on Nov. 9.
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