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The chatter online and in offices across New York focused heavily on Friday's mind-boggling Mega Millions lottery jackpot, which soared above half a billion dollars Thursday. And as the monetary sum has increased -- to a world-record $540 million prize -- so too has the amount of entertaining messages on Twitter.
We scoured the social birdcage for the most entertaining and downright hilarious tweets from big-name Twitter personalities and hopeful Americans. Flip through the gallery to give yourself a hefty dose of laughter.
Expect more of these conversations to surface across social networks as the day continues. "Mega Millions" is currently number five on Google's hourly updated list of top 20 trending topics.
The drawing for this jackpot will happen Friday. Lottery tickets cost $1 per play. To win, a player must match all of his or her six numbers on a ticket to the numbers picked during the drawing. The jackpot is paid in 26 annual payments or in a smaller cash option. The cash option this go-around is $389 million.
As Effie Trinket from Hunger Games would say, "May the odds be ever in your favor."