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Lady Gaga and Kim Kardashian are going to sign off Twitter and Facebook for Charity. They have joined a new campaign called Digital Life Sacrifice on behalf of Alicia Keys’ charity, Keep a Child Alive to help raise money for charity that support families affected by HIV/AIDS in Africa and India.

Lady Gaga will leave Twitter just like other host of celebrities including Justin Timberlake, Alicia Keys, Usher, Jennifer Hudson and Ryan Seacrest who will only resume their online presence when the charity has raised $1 million.

Lady Gaga and Kim Kardashian are planning to sign off of social networking sites like Twitter, Myspace, Facebook, etc. on Wednesday, World AIDS Day, held on December 1.

Lady Gaga will leave web where she has more than seven million followers on Twitter while Kardashian has over five million followers. Lady Gaga who has agreed to keep quiet has nearly 24 million Facebook fans.

Other celebs going to leave web include Khloe Kardashian, Elijah Wood, Serena Williams, Janelle Monae and Keys’ husband, Swizz Beatz. Alicia Keys is the first global ambassador of the Keep A Child Alive charity.

Leigh Blake, who is president and co-founder of the charity, said: ‘We’re trying to sort of make the remark: Why do we care so much about the death of one celebrity as opposed to millions and millions of people dying in the place that we’re all from?’

Celebrities have also filmed “last tweet and testament” videos and will appear in ads that features them lying in coffins to represent what the campaign calls their digital deaths. Alicia Keys, who has more than 2.6 million followers on Twitter says “This is such a direct and instantly emotional way and a little sarcastic, you know, of a way to get people to pay attention.”

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