Homeless New Yorker reunites with his daughter after 11 years thanks to Twitter

Daniel Morales, 58, got a Twitter account about three weeks ago, documenting what it's like to be homeless - 140 characters at a time. The number of people following him on the social networking site ballooned to about 3,000 and climbing.

Morales quickly mastered the fine art of tweeting and decided to use the tool to find his 27-year-old daughter.

He struggled a bit with spelling, but used a prepaid cell phone donated by Underheard in New York to reach out for Sarah Rivera.

"Hi thi is to let yo people know that in lookin eoq my daughter her name is sarah m rivera," he tweeted Wednesday evening.

Morales also posted his cell number and a picture of his daughter at age 16. He initially had no luck.

"It makes me cry for real," he said yesterday afternoon. "It's like a part of me is missing. But I have a feeling I'm going to find her."

He was right. Hours later, his daughter called.

"She lives in Brooklyn!" Morales said. "We are going to get together tomorrow, but we don't know where yet. I didn't even recognize her voice, but it turns out she is so close. It's too much, too much."