What I don't get is why Tweet isn't treated with the same reverence? I mean, he probably had a lot more to do with the actually GOOD ideas in 3e, based on everything he produced before and after vs. what Cook has produced.
1. d20 World of Darkness
2. Ptolus and lots of 3e material
3. Cook is just a way cooler name than Tweet, even after Twitter came out.
4. Monte makes him sound British, therefore smarter. Glasses help.
5. Cook looks semi-normal, Tweet looks like the type of gamer you avoid at a FLGS.
6. Tweet's Rick Rubin, everyone has heard of his name, everyone in the industry wants to work with him. 99% of people who love his work wouldn't recognize him sitting across from them. Monte Cook is Eminem, his name is on the direct covers of a lot more product, and his controversies against The Man (WotC) and The Soccer Moms (SJW stuff) give him street cred.
7. Monte bangs a hot sex-positive feminist. Tweet, who knows, could be a basement dweller.
8. Tweet gets together with a bunch of other people (his name lower billing) on a 4e knockoff called a "Loveletter to D&D". Cook makes a cardboard Hellraiser Cube and stuffs a game inside.
9. Monte aggressively markets his stuff. I only know Tweet's still around because I haven't seen anything announcing otherwise.