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#PayMyTuitionChallenge is a Twitter hashtag which accompanies call outs to various celebrities to pay for a student's tuition as a parody of the "ice bucket challenge".

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On August 20th, 2014, Twitter user Africa_naptural called out United States President Barack Obama, television personality Oprah Winfrey, entrepreneur Bill Gates, musicians Don Jazzy, singer-songwriter Beyonce, R&B singer Akon, actor Brad Pitt, actress Angelina Jolie and actor Will Smith to pay for her tuition.

Jazzi Mel @Africa_naptural な憶Follow God will #PayMyTuitionChallenge bless y'all 9 Yeadon, PA わReply 다 Retweet ★ Favorite More #PayMyTutionChallenge ! nominate Obama, Oprah Winfrey, Don Jazzy, Beyoncé, Akon, Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Will Smith and Bill Gates RETWEETS FAVORITES 9:08 PM - 20 Aug 2014 Flag media

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On August 21st, 2014, Twitter user @joshgander1^[2] tweeted the hashtag #paymytuitionchallenge and nominated Obama, along with Mark Zuckerberg, Jay-Z, Beyonce and several other celebrities to pay for his tuition. In the first 24 hours, the tweet gained over 11,000 retweets and 6,100 favorites.

Josh Gander @joshganderl Follow You have 24 hours. #PayMyTuitionChallenge Reply Retweet ★ Favorite More #PayMyTuitionChallenge I nominate Obama, Mark Zuckerberg Oprah, Jay Z, Beyonce, Kanye West Justin Bieber, Kim Kardashian, Rihanna Nicki Minai, Drake, Lil Wayne, Eminem Tom from MySpace, Brad Pitt, QueenLatifah ETWEETSFAVORITES 11,116 6,109- 釘層閻霑悶 10:36 AM- 21 Aug 2014 Flag media

The same day, Social News Daily^[1] published an article about the trending hashtag, which highlighted several examples tweets. According to the Twitter analytics site Topsy, the hashtag was tweeted upwards of 27,000 times in the first 48 hours.

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^[1] Social News Daily – Pay My Tuition Challenge

^[2] Twitter – @joshgander1

^[3] Topsy – #paymytuitionchallenge

^[4] Twitter – Africa_naptural

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Tweets per day: #paymytuitionchallenge July 23rd- August 22nd 25K 20K 15K 10K 5K 7124 7127 7/30 8/2 8/5 818 8/14 8/19 ANALYTCS BY TOPSY #paymytuitionchallenge 27,076

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#PayMyTuitionChallenge is a Twitter hashtag which accompanies call outs to various celebrities to pay for a student's tuition as a parody of the "ice bucket challenge".