On a meta level, I find it interesting that a maintainer of a React has been checking on a vanity metric of a competing framework, and felt the need to put out a congratulatory statement the moment it surpassed React.
To be fair, it's probably more likely that they saw this thread[1] yesterday at some point after React 'won' than that they were dutifully monitoring competing product's star counts.
I was laying in bed at 2:30am after watching a TV show and then playing checkers with my wife, and was about to go to sleep but decided to check Twitter one last time (yeah I'm pretty addicted!)
I usually search for "reactjs i" ("i" to filter out blog spam) and this time I saw a few people commenting on this "star race". I knew both React and Vue are close to 100k, and I found it amusing that just as I opened the website tracker, it was leading by 2 (!) stars.
I knew this would be exciting to a lot of people (folks don't hesitate to tell me they prefer Vue to React every day, as I often seek out negative opinions to learn more). So I shared it with some of my personal thoughts on Vue (see follow-up tweets).
Not sure if you implied I had some sort of hidden agenda but you can just chat to me. :-)
"Accidentally", hm.