Put the hashtags away. Kara Alongi, the 16-year-old Jersey girl whose fake tweet about being kidnapped turned a routine case of a teen runaway into a global sensation, has returned home safely to her family in Clark, NJ. She was picked up by state troopers yesterday evening, walking along the New Jersey Turnpike near Carney's Point, NJ, according to the New York Post. Police won't comment on what she's been up to since she urged her twitter followers to call 911 because someone was in her house, then took a taxi to the train station and bought a ticket to New York City.

Here is Kara Alongi, the 16-year-old whose fake tweet about being kidnapped set off an internet firestorm, caught by a surveillance camera at the Rahway station in New Jersey on Sunday night. The picture was taken at 6:34 P.M., just about fifteen minutes after she had tweeted: "There is somone in my house call 911." Police have learned that she bought a ticket to Penn Station, New York that night, confirming their suspicion that she was a runaway, not a kidnap victim. They're still looking for her. As of this writing, Kara Alongi has 109,000 followers on Twitter.

Like its boring old relative, cable news, there is nothing that gets social media more excited than an imperiled white teenage girl. On Sunday night at around 6:15 p.m., New Jersey 16-year-old Kara Alongi tweeted "There is someone in my hour ecall 911." (sic.) The apparently panic-garbled tweet went viral over night, as millions of Twitter users urged followers to help find the kidnapped girl by tweeting hashtags and liking Facebook pages. There couldn't have been a bigger internet freakout if Joseph Kony himself had spirited Kara away.