Master tweeter Richard Deitsch usually is at his best when he is feuding with Darren Rovell or going on off on something, which is all the time. However, the SI.com sports media columnist hit on something this week, and it could be big.

At least it was big enough to merit a write-up on CNN.com.

Also want to give a shout out to Steve Bennett of Sports-Casters (wearing Yale cap), who inspired the idea.

From CNN’s Dorrine Mendoza:

Richard Deitsch was perusing Twitter when one photo made him stop. At first glance it’s unremarkable, not much different from any other victory photo. It’s a bit grainy and shows three young men smiling and hugging.

One of the men had just won an NCAA hockey championship at Yale.

Deitsch said he was struck by something more than just the photo. He knew the man who posted it, Steven Bennett, host of a Buffalo-based sports podcast. Bennett is in the picture celebrating his younger brother’s victory, despite having just spent more than six weeks in the hospital.

“You gotta come now,” Bennett remembers his younger brother, Anthony Day, telling him over the phone. Bennett made it for the semifinal, which his brother’s team won in overtime. For the final game, Bennett was joined by 23 family members, one of whom snapped the photo of all three brothers embracing.

“I thought to myself how remarkable it was to have an image of what was clearly one of the best moments of Steven’s life,” Deitsch said. “I wondered: How many others have a similar image? So I took to Twitter and asked,” he said. He credited @Sports_Casters, one of Bennett’s accounts, for the idea in his tweet.

And just like that, the heart of the Internet broke wide open.

“I could never have expected what came next,” he said.

And this is what came next:

Hundreds of photos have been shared with both accounts, and continue coming in, Deitsch said. Scrolling through his newsfeed, one finds photos of a child’s first day of school and high school graduations. A child meeting a sibling for the first time and a baby recovering from open-heart surgery. But there are also unexpected moments of joy witnessed, like a long-married couple exchanging a final goodbye, hard-earned sports victories, and the day a woman opens her eyes after undergoing a heart and double-lung transplant.

CNN has a rundown of some of the pictures people sent in. Definitely worth a look.