Can you plagiarize a tweet?

Saturday night after the L.A. Kings won Game 2 of the Stanley Cup final, this tweet was sent from their account:

It was retweeted it 50+ times and favourited 50+ times as well.

Then at 5 a.m. Sunday morning, this was tweeted by the Huffington Post Canada:

Coincidence? Or something else? I’m hesitant to call the second tweet plagiarism, though I don’t understand why it pretty much mimics the Kings’ tweet from six hours earlier — even if unintentional.

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