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Open all those cards and some sending gifts, waiting for him back at home from all over the world. >> happy birthday collin. wooh! >> reporter: and a message for all of his new friends. >> has this been the best birthday ever? >> yes. 11 is my new favorite number. >> reporter: david muir, abc news, new york. >> he will be opening those cards until hes 50 years old. thats an awesome story. >> he said his last party was in kindergarten and only one showed up. this is a kid who eats lunch alone eve...

♪ happy birthday to you ♪ ♪ happy birthday to you ♪ finally this half hour, a birthday that an 11-year-old boy a long with 2 million of his closest friends, will never forget. >> this one is our "favorite story of the day." and just a few months ago, this young man was feeling a little lonely. now thanks to his mom and the love of strangers, he is now one of the most popular kids on the planet. heres abcs david muir. >> reporter: 10-year-old collin cunningham had no idea he would touch...

Invite? i dont have any friends. >> reporter: collin has a disorder similar to aspergers and he has a hard time making friends. so with that birthday coming, she created this facebook page looking for friends for her son. this is what she wrote -- >> i created this page for my wonderful, amazing, challenging son. >> reporter: the response was immediate. >> the first day i got a hundred "likes." i was like, wow, amazing. >> reporter: then 13,000 "likes." then 47,000. soon more than 900,000 "likes...

>> announcer: from abc news, this is "world news now." >> good morning. im marci gonzalez in for diana perez. >> and im john muller. we begin with the deepening mystery of malaysia airlines flight 370. still so few clues about what might have happened. search crews testing an oil slick found in the south china sea and tracking down a possible sighting of a plane part. >> weve learned a woman from the pittsburgh area, a malaysian citizen with a u.s. green card, was also on board. and th...