The Power Of Twitter: The Tweet That Found Missing Alzheimer's Woman

A woman in Belfast has illustrated the power of Twitter by using the social network to find her mother, who suffers from Alzheimer’s Disease, after she had been missing for more than nine hours.

Diane Blayney left her home in Belfast, Northern Ireland, at 9am on Wednesday to walk her dogs. When she didn’t return shortly, her family began to worry. Diane’s daughter, Joanne Mehaffey, who was travelling at the time and did not have a consistent phone signal, reached to Twitter for help, posting this tweet.

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