No kidding. You hear of Bob McKenzie? Over 300,000 followers on Twitter, he's from TSN and followed by people mainly for sports news. He retweeted three of the girl's brother's tweets.
In her absence, she now has 19,000 Twitter followers.
Translation: I need to die in a horrific incident. That will boost my Twitter count. ;)
Seriously, though, my heart sank when I heard that at 6:00. I found the story online since.