Love Twitter but wish you had more celebrity friends to read your wise musings? Well worry no longer you rampant egotistic. TwitChange, a Twitter charity auction in aid of Haiti and fronted by our third favourite Desperate Housewife, Eva Longoria, lets you bid for the attention of celebrities. It’s for a good cause but is paying for a celebrity follow the future?
The TwitChange Twitter auction gives you the chance to bid to be followed by your favourite celebrity, retweeted and mentioned by them in a special tweet. It kicked off yesterday on eBay and bids are already racking up.
Bidding in the TwitChange auction for the privilege of having pop irritant Justin Bieber follow you for 90 days, retweet one of your messages and send a tweet including your Twitter name currently stands at nearly $2500.
For folk aching for the Twitter love of a British celeb through the TwitChange auction, bastions of the UK Twitterati including Stephen Fry and Emma Kennedy are on the list. Bids for a retweet, mention and follow from Fry or Kennedy both stand at over $500 right now.
If you’re not fussed about paying for the friendship of the famous, you can also donate to aHomeInHaiti through the site without battling for a celeb attention. Proceeds from the TwitChange auction are going to the rebuilding of the Miriam Centre, a facility for children with cerebral palsy, autism and other serious life challenges in Haiti.
This may be the most worthy harnessing of Twitter narcissism we’ve ever seen. But if you’re tempted to bid for Bieber, take a good hard look at yourself and just send the cash instead.
I wouldn't bid on this auction if you're thinking about it. Just send money to the charity. Our company bid on the last auction they had in Sept. and only 1 of the 7 auctions we won was followed through on. Apparently none of the celebs want to follow through on what they pledged to do.
Love Twitter but wish you had more celebrity friends to read your wise musings? Well worry no longer you rampant egotistic. TwitChange, a Twitter charity auction in aid of Haiti and fronted by our third favourite Desperate Housewife, Eva Longoria, lets you bid for the attention of celebrities. It’s for a good cause but is paying for a celebrity follow the future?
