Because it’s a direct follow up to what they said, pointing out a related observation. It’s like people adding an edit to their post or someone commenting on their own lemmy post.
It’s a post from later, providing added input after the OP has seen how many scientists agree with the sentiment… The reason for the reply is literally written in the text that it is made up of
why is the same person replying to their own tweet?
Because it’s a direct follow up to what they said, pointing out a related observation. It’s like people adding an edit to their post or someone commenting on their own lemmy post.
this felt more like they forgot it was their own post
It’s a post from later, providing added input after the OP has seen how many scientists agree with the sentiment… The reason for the reply is literally written in the text that it is made up of
Ah i see I misread “how many scientists are retweeting this” as “how many scientists sre tweeting this”