About a week or so ago, I had a tweeter DM me and ask me what the numbers represented next to my tweets.

Not too long ago, Twitter stopped allowing duplicate tweets. When I first started doing the Question of the Day back in July 2009, I would tweet the question every hour from 9a to 9p, and it would be the same, exact tweet. About a month or so ago, I tried to do the same thing I’d been doing since July, and Twitter gave me an error message that said “duplicate tweet.”

I did discover that you can send identical tweets as long as there is at least three hours between the previous tweet and the next tweet, but that didn’t serve my purpose.

I tweet the Question of the Day every hour, because different tweeters see it at different times of the day. While the same tweet may be annoying to someone who’s spending every hour on Twitter, some tweeters only see the question once or twice, while others miss all of them, believe it or not.

Anyway, that’s what the numbers represent. It’s a way for me to distinguish one tweet from another even though all but the number is the same content.

Thanks for asking!

From what movie is this line…

“You tryin’ to woo me?”

Answer: “Crooklyn” (1994) starring Alfre Woodard and Delroy Lindo

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My Question of the Day: You show up for work like you normally do everyday, and there’s a notice on your desk that there will be an emergency meeting in the large conference room/breakroom that everyone must attend at 3p. At this meeting, you learn that the entire company is moving overseas.

When management tells you to which country the company is moving, you remember being fascinated about this country when you learned about it in school. You said to yourself back then that you might like to visit this country one day and see all the wonderful things you learned about in class.

There’s one more thing on the president’s agenda before the meeting is adjourned. Every current employee is given the option to relocate (with their family, if they have one) overseas with the company, at your own expense and at a lower salary (because of the nature of the economy in the other country), but you’ll still have a job and you won’t lose your benefits package, plus the company will fly you (and your family, if you have one) back to your home country two times a year at the company’s expense. What do you do?

(inspired by @ObiOrion; thanks)

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The Question: One of your coworkers wants to introduce you to one of his/her relatives. S/he thinks you all would make a good match. What do you do?

My 2 Cents: This actually happened to me when I was a schoolteacher. The English teacher wanted me to meet her son, and one the of deans wanted me to meet his brother. I was like, “Wow. I can’t believe these folks think enough of me to want me in their family.” It was a head trip, for real.

I never interacted with the dean’s brother, but I did talk on the phone frequently with the English teacher’s son, and he was a really good guy. He was just in another state. Not cool. Plus, we were more comfortable just chatting on a friendly level than anything else, so we kept it there. When I joined the Army, we lost touch.

I’m not absolutely opposed to being introduced to a coworker’s relative, but it’s not the most ideal situation. I wouldn’t flat-out refuse, but I’d be very cautious how I approached the relationship.

By the by, a couple of years ago, my Daddy ran into the guy who used to be the dean at my school, and my Daddy called me so I could speak with the guy. When he got on the phone, he said, “You should have married my brother. He ended up marrying a woman who already has five kids.” I guess to him, that was not a good thing. Haha.

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Take a few moments to check out the tweets from Twitter on this subject:

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Mo_Rease I would kindly tell them thanks but no thanks.

atane It depends on what they look like. lol

md20737 I pass on the invite.

BLKMGK I’ve done that before and it didn’t work out. I’d politely decline the offer.

LadyJay91 oh that is a BIG no-no never ever ever hook up with a relative of someone U work with. That’s like dating someone at urchurch

JoshDamage go on a date, cudnt hurt

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