A Barrie homeowner is reeling after a message posted online to Twitter attracted hundreds of strangers to what was supposed to be a modest party at her house.

Approximately 200 teenagers showed up at Diane Glenn’s house Saturday and proceeded to smash beer bottles, torment the family dogs and smear paint on furniture.

Some revellers stole jewelry and prescription drugs, while others broke cabinets and stair posts. By the end of the night, the partiers had caused an estimated $40,000 in damage.

“Who does this? Who does it?” a visibly upset Glenn told CTV 2 Barrie. “And those parents that dropped their kids off to this house -- how could you not have seen what was going on?”

The night started off with Glenn’s son hosting a small get-together for three of his friends, but spun out of control when one of the house guests shared his whereabouts on Twitter.

Word soon got around that there was a party on O'Shaughnessy Crescent.

“It happened really quick and got dangerous really quickly,” Glenn recalled.

Broken glass, a smashed light fixture and paint stains still litter her home. Her two family dogs remain jittery after being attacked by partygoers, one of them slammed against a wall.

It wouldn’t be the first time social media has played a role in an out-of-control house party.

In the month of May alone, York Regional Policein Ontario say they’ve been called to 75 parties that grew unmanageable because of invites on Facebook or Twitter.

Calgary teen Hunter Mills attracted global attention last March when he tweeted about a party taking place at his friend Kris Morrey’s house.

The message, which included the hashtag #projectkris, was re-tweeted thousands of times by users across the globe. Despite the hype, the party fizzled out when attendees discovered the tweeted address was a nightclub that barred anyone under the age of 18.

In Germany, about 1,500 people reportedly showed up at a teen’s birthday party after she neglected to notice that her Facebook invite to the event was public.

With a report from CTV Barrie reporter Rob Cooper