Santa Has Record year
Santa Claus set records Christmas Eve he raced across the globe on his on his traditional holiday mission.
Santa tracking volunteers at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado said they fielded about 102,000 telephone queries beginning early Saturday on his progress, breaking the previous mark of 80,000.
And his NORAD Facebook page recorded about 999,000 “likes,” compared with 716,000 a year ago. Twitter followers increased from about 53,000 last year more than 89,000.
Officials said records set this year were likely generated by people passing the word as well as social media interest.
“I think what happens is that every year the ones the participated” tells others, Canadian Navy Lt. Al Blondin. “There’s word of mouth.”
Volunteers at NORAD Tracks Santa said kids started calling at 4 a.m. Saturday to find out where Santa was.