A woman who issued a plea for Twitter to help her find her "best friend" she met on a Hawaiian cruise in 2006 was reunited with her within 11 hours, leaving people in tears at the sweet online reunion.
Brianna, from Mississippi, who goes by the Twitter handle Briannacry, posted a photo of her smiling younger self wearing a lei garland alongside another girl in a blue floral dress, asking for help finding her.
She had no name for the girl but said she missed her and wanted to know how she was doing.
Within a matter of hours the girl named Heidi, an artist who appears to live in California, responded to her with a picture of herself holding a holiday snap as proof, along with the comment "I heard you were looking for me".
People who had been closely following Brianna's search said that the result had them "crying" with another sharing the post saying "I love the internet".
