Regardless of whether you use Twitter avidly or you are not a fan of its 140 character limit, some of the hashtags seen on Twitter can really bring a smile to your face. The created hashtags often become trending topics, despite their lack of relevance to current headlines. Amusing trending topics in the past have included #twosentencestories, where users must craft a tale using only two sentences, and #TrumpExplainsMoviePlots, where Twitter users impersonate Presidential nominee Donald Trump summarizing the plot of a popular movie– without including the title.

Today I was interested when I saw #BreakingSmallTownNews trending on Twitter…what could this hashtag be about? It seemed awfully vague…was it possible that multiple small towns had newsworthy stories and were coincidentally using this hashtag? That was NOT the case…

#BreakingSmallTownNews is a trending topic where people make up phony news stories that they feel would only be relevant in a small town. Here are a few of my favorites…

Whether you use it to get your news or to get your daily dose of humor, Twitter can be a fun thing to check in on during your work day. If you want to know what else I find funny, interesting, and newsworthy on Twitter, feel free to follow me @Carlimi