PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. (AP) — The North AmericanAerospace Defense Command’s Santa-tracking
program logged 19.58 millionunique visitors to its website on Christmas Eve.NORAD saidThursday that
volunteers answered 117,371 calls from children seekinginformation on the jolly old elf’s whereabouts. First
lady MichelleObama was among the program’s 1,200 volunteers.An additional 146,307 followed Santa’s progress
on Twitter. The program also got 1.45 million "likes" on Facebook.Thosenumbers are up from last
year when volunteers answered 114,000 phonecalls from around the world. The website had 22.3 million
uniquevisitors. NORAD Tracks Santa had 1.2 million followers on Facebook and129,000 on Twitter.The Christmas
tradition of tracking Santabegan in 1955 when a local newspaper advertisement invited children tocall Santa
but mistakenly listed the hotline of NORAD’s predecessor.Copyright 2013 The Associated Press. All
rightsreserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten orredistributed.PETERSON AIR FORCE
BASE, Colo. (AP) — The North AmericanAerospace Defense Command’s Santa-tracking program logged 19.58
millionunique visitors to its website on Christmas Eve.NORAD saidThursday that volunteers answered 117,371
calls from children seekinginformation on the jolly old elf’s whereabouts. First lady MichelleObama was
among the program’s 1,200 volunteers.An additional 146,307 followed Santa’s progress on Twitter. The program
also got 1.45 million "likes" on Facebook.Thosenumbers are up from last year when volunteers
answered 114,000 phonecalls from around the world. The website had 22.3 million uniquevisitors. NORAD Tracks
Santa had 1.2 million followers on Facebook and129,000 on Twitter.The Christmas tradition of tracking
Santabegan in 1955 when a local newspaper advertisement invited children tocall Santa but mistakenly listed
the hotline of NORAD’s predecessor.Copyright 2013 The Associated Press. All rightsreserved. This material
may not be published, broadcast, rewritten orredistributed.