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Celebrity Twitter accounts not coming back to life anytime soon

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In an admirable show of solidarity with World AIDS Day, several celebrities -- including Kim Kardashian, Ryan Seacrest, Justin Timberlake and Lady Gaga -- have sworn off Twitter until $1 million is raised for HIV/AIDS non-profit, Keep a Child Alive.

But judging by fundraiser's current momentum, you should probably get used to their digital deaths.

world-aids-day-funds.jpgOn Dec. 2, Popeater reports that in the first crucial day, BuyLife.org only received just over $160,000 in pledges. In the following 24-hours, only another $23,000 has been added to that total. Without a serious boost, the celebrity tweet drought of 2010 could stretch well into 2011.

Matching the day 2 donations every day, an incredibly generous assumption, would still see the radio silence last until January 4.

If only there were a way to send the public quick reminders to donate money...

Oh, right. Twitter!

The boycott apparently doesn't prohibit posts about the fundraiser, so all participants have been sending out daily links to donate and testimonials of people who've benefited from Keep a Child Alive's work.

This is for such a worthy cause, so we don't want to make fun, but Kim Kardashian is probably wondering how engaged her 5,477,939 followers are right about now.

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Because nobody cares! Twitter is dying because it sucks! Nobody cares about whether they can tweet with the Kardashians...please!

I don't follow any celebs or stars so I don't care if they tweet or don't tweet .

why are they asking people who probably make like 320894729473x less than them to give money? i'm sure lady gaga herself could literally cough up a million or pull it out of a drawer or something as pocket change. makes no sense.

Maybe they should boycott facebook insteasd

wait.. we are donating money so celebrities DON'T tweet about stupid things?????????? BEST IDEA EVER!!!

wow, this is seriously funny, i hope they never come back to twitter life again, it'd save the world zillions of brain cells!!

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