Whoops! You already tweeted that..

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Twitter came up with that one. I’m sure its intentions were good, but it has made an error of judgement in this case.

The circumstances were a tweet from qikipedia

Both Thomas Edison and Walt Disney started their careers as paperboys

I though this a pretty unremarkable factoid and so responded to it with

@qikipedia along with half the population?

I see I was by no means alone in this. Many others replied along similar lines.

A few minutes later, they pop out with another one -

Sean Connery’s career has included spells as a body-builder, milkman, coffin-polisher, nude model & Mr Universe

Admittedly a slightly more remarkable factoid. Nevertheless I thought it would be amusing to respond with the exact same

@qikipedia along with half the population?

But twitter wouldn’t let me and instead ‘took care of me’ and thereby spoiled everything. Boo!