3 ms·
It doesn't seem like the publications stole it from the tweet. It's just that someone presumably saw the tweet, asked the question on StackExchange (question is
by kyle-rb 8y ago
It doesn't seem like the publications stole it from the tweet. It's just that someone presumably saw the tweet, asked the question on StackExchange (question is gone now so not sure whether the asker mentioned the tweet), and then StackExchange was where the answer was, so the people writing articles probably had no reason to assume there was a deeper source.