Alicia Keys’ Digital Death Campaign Reaches $1 Million Goal

Lady Gaga, Kim Kardashian, Justin Timberlake and more celebs have been ‘resurrected’ on Twitter and Facebook by fans’ donations. By Kelley L. Carter Alicia Keys Photo: Samir Hussein/Getty Images It’s time to welcome some of your favorite celebrity tweeters back to the land of the living. Last week, several celebs temporarily signed off their Twitter accounts and Facebook pages to help raise $1 million for Alicia Keys’ Keep a Child Alive organization. They proclaimed their own Digital Deaths last Wednesday on World AIDS Day and met their goal Monday (December 6). Some stars began tweeting immediately. The idea was hatched by Keys, and she and other celebs urged their fans to buy back their online lives by texting the first name of the celebrity they miss on social media the most to contribute to the cause. “From the bottom of my heart, thank you to all of the fans, friends and artists who joined this cause,” Keys said in a statement. “I’m incredibly inspired by all of the donations that have been made to help us achieve our goal and so humbled by the outpour of support from everyone.” Now that the tweeting ban has been lifted, celebrities including Keys, Lady Gaga, Kim Kardashian, Ryan Seacrest, Justin Timberlake, Usher, Jennifer Hudson, Khlo

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