Your info is just out of date
alt text is the old HTML abusing way of doing it. But since that is not what alt text is supposed to be used for, they added the title attribute so that the alt text could be used correctly again.
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Richy_T hundreds if not thousands of dollars,
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drivell.
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LordManley twitter.com/LordManley,
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