Ellen DeGeneres Twitter Follower to Win $1,000

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Jennifer Van Grove
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Ellen DeGeneres Twitter Follower to Win $1,000
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We're sure it was full of teen-irific surprises, but what really piqued our curiosity is that high profile celebrity Twitterer, Ellen DeGeneres (@TheEllenShow), won the award for Choice Twit (was Ashton in the running?), and in the process promised to make the prize worthwhile to a lucky Twitter follower.

Ellen is currently the service's second most popular user and is fast approaching 3 million followers. Possibly as a ploy to close the gap between her and the competition, Ellen announced that she will randomly reward one follower with $1,000. The official announcement was made on air, hinted about on Twitter, and confirmed on The Ellen Degeneres Show Blog.

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The post reads, "You never know what surprises she's planning for her newly award-winning tweets! That is, unless you watch her acceptance speech, in which case you'll know that sometime soon she's giving away $1,000 to a random follower!"

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