Kim Kardashian and Other Celebrities Rise from the Digital Grave and are Tweeting Again

Posted 12/08/2010 at 7:10am | by Paul Lilly

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Faced with a moral dilemma, the world had a choice between exiling Alicia Keys, Justin Timberlake, Kim Kardashian, Lady Gaga, Ryan Seacrest, and Usher from Twitter forever, or raise $1 million for the Digital Life Sacrifice campaign on behalf of Keys' charity, Keep a Child Alive. Twitter users chose the latter.

The above mentioned celebrities vowed to stop tweeting until the campaign raised a million bucks, going so far as posing for ads in which they were photographed laying in coffins, a symbol of their digital demise. The ads called on fans to send donations via text messaging, who collectively responded and have now brought the stars back to life, UK's Daily Mail reports.

Despite raising $1 million, the campaign wasn't as successful as Keys and company hoped. Donations were slow to roll in, and it took a $500,000 check from billionaire pharmaceutical executive Stewart Rahr to meet that goal and ensure millions of Twitter of fans would see their favorite stars realign with Twitter.