Billionaire Philanthropist Wakes Stars From The Dead, Digital Death Campaign Reaches $1Million Goal

Somebody was eager to read celebrities' petty Twitter and Facebook updates again. The much-publicized Digital Death campaign of Keep a Child Alive organization, spearheaded by Alicia Keys, has finally made $1 million in donations after a very slow start, thanks to a billionaire.

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The campaign, which sees celebrities "digitally dead" from their social network sites in the hopes of raising a million dollars for the charity, was met with lukewarm response from the fans.

The idea was for the stars - such as Keys, Lady Gaga, Elijah Wood, Kim Kardashian, Justin Timberlake, and Serena Williams - to stop updating their Twitter and Facebook pages, therefore "dying" from their digital life, until they were able to collect $1 million from their followers.

But it seems the stars have overestimated their power over their millions of followers. The campaign was met with criticisms and was joked about on the blogosphere. Donations barely reached $200,000 by last week. So it seemed that the over-tweeting stars wouldn't be able to come back from the dead for a while.

Not anymore, though. Pharmaceutical tycoon and billionaire Stewart Rahr took pity in the dead celebs and allowed them to update their Twitter and Facebook to their hearts content once more by donating $500,000.

Rahr agreed to match $500,000 if the public and the stars who are involved in the campaign raise the same amount.

Keys said, "From the bottom of my heart, thank you to all of the fans, friends and artists who joined this cause. 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."

"Stewart Rahr has been a steadfast advocate of KCA and his generosity this time around is simply incredible."