Twitterist: Philadelphia In 140 Characters Or Less

Today's featured Twitter user is @Drew. Known in meatspace as Drew Olanoff, he is a Philly blogger engaged in his own fight against cancer. He was diagnosed with Hodgkins Lymphoma in May 2009. In an effort to put the disease in its place, he started the #blamedrewscancer hashtag on Twitter, which has since gone viral and turned into a powerful movement.

Inviting everyone to blame, well, everything on his cancer, Drew has forged a lot of great relationships as a result of his charity efforts, which are geared toward Livestrong. Specifically, he's auctioning the @Drew Twitter handle, and Drew Carey is bidding. He'll bid a dollar for every follower he gets at his current Twitter account, @DrewFromTV, up to $1M, by December 31, 2009. So what are you waiting for? Go follow him, and tell all your friends.

And now, back to our regularly scheduled programming!

• @jimjenks noted that the weather is much-improved for tonight's Game 4. (original tweet)
• @thephillypirate reminds you that they set sail in less than a week, so get your tickets! (original tweet)
• @phillyspeak pointed us to City Paper's Meal Ticket blog, which has an extensive list of local food and beverage purveyors on Twitter. (original tweet)
• Finally, while we don't really enjoy automatically updated accounts unless they point to a people-powered alternative, we respect that @Resumebook360 has been hired by an anonymous local manufacturer to find a Director of Nanotechnology Marketing and Commercial Development. Oh, and to make it slightly weirder, they have the same position available in Piscataway, NJ, Chicago, Illinois, and Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota. We're pretty sure this job post could fuel the first few chapters of an awesome science fiction story. Anyone care to get us started on Chapter 1 in the comments? (original tweet)

We're on Twitter, too—just follow @Phillyist. Because we choose featured users from amongst our followers, following us is a good way to make sure that you or your organization is in the running. And if you're on Twitter and we haven't found you yet, leave a link to your profile in the comments!