That's because without using GitHub, Bower's packages aren't namespaced. This was something discussed at length on the component spec github.
It sure feels like Twitter is avoiding giving credit where credit is due. No links to the component.json spec or any mention of TJ Holowaychuk's component feels smarmy to me.
His name is listed in the README. I think the next level of recognition would have been for him to contribute code, and for whatever reason, that didn't happen. It could be because TJ is busy doing other things, because development was closed, or because they disagreed on things, or a combination of reasons.
I looked at the source and found that the initial public commit contains 79 files.
I had a bit of a different thing in mind, my implementation is here https://github.com/component/component, it's certainly more opinionated, more of a framework almost, but solves more problems (of mine at least)
It sure feels like Twitter is avoiding giving credit where credit is due. No links to the component.json spec or any mention of TJ Holowaychuk's component feels smarmy to me.