The "blogified" version also links to some related tweets that add some important context.
Of course someone interested enough could cobble everything together themselves, but the whole point of linking to a secondary source is to let someone else do the synthesis.
Erm, it only quotes one tweet from the other dev that actually doesn't add anything at all by saying that they still didn't get paid which was implied.
It also had (it's been silently rewritten) an outrageously sensationalist title and lack context and follow up you have in the original source.
The "blogified" version also links to some related tweets that add some important context.
Of course someone interested enough could cobble everything together themselves, but the whole point of linking to a secondary source is to let someone else do the synthesis.