I don’t think anyone is trying to diminish the work of the community, rather point our the unfair claim that the work I’m describing is the same as tweeting. They aren’t.

Yes the community was a huge part of this and without them we wouldn’t be where we are. But I hope some consider how the initial story broke to even make people pay attention to the tweets, rather than it just go by as another JS takeover ignored by the space.. sort of like what happened to popnetwork.

So I’m not sure how to say any of this as I don’t at all want to diminish the amazing work the community did, but perhaps people should consider if any of those tweets would have even mattered without the wide news coverage and the calling out of exchanges in them. That didn’t happen by accident or luck. Implying such is diminishing the work of those that insured it happened.