Students Try to Trick News Station to Announce Snow Day Via Twitter

A group of innovative students thought they could get school canceled using social media. According to Babble.com, a group of Tennessee students thought they could trick the local news into announcing a snow day for their school district. They assumed that there's no way "old people" could understand social media. So the students created a fake Twitter account, and sent direct messages to the local news stations, posing as a school administrator. The original message stated, "This is [the name of a Hamilton County school administrator] with the Hamilton County Department of Education, please inform students of no school tomorrow."

The local ABC news didn't fall for it, messaging back, "ha ha … nice try. You obviously don’t know the password.” They then went on to live Tweet what was going on.