Homeless Man Finds Daughter through Twitter

A homeless New Yorker who hadn’t seen his daughter in 11 years was reunited with her this week, thanks to Twitter.

A homeless New Yorker who hadn’t seen his daughter in 11 years was reunited with her this week, thanks to Twitter. Three weeks ago, he was given a cellphone as part of a project documenting the lives of the homeless. He and three other men were asked to share their experiences through 140-character updates. On Wednesday, he tweeted, ‘Hi thi is to let yo people know that in lookin for my daughter her name is sarah m rivera’, and posted his phone number and a picture of his daughter, who was 16 when he saw her last. The next day, his daughter called him from a domestic violence shelter. He added that getting in touch with his daughter again after 11 years with his grandkids was an “awesome feeling…”

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