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National Park Service Twitter Account Shut Down After Anti-Trump Retweets

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On 20 January 2017, the day Donald J. Trump took office as President of the United States, news outlets posted photos purporting to compare the size of the crowd attending Trump's inauguration to that attending Barack Obama's first inaugural ceremony in 2009. Although there was not yet an official count of how many people actually showed up at the Trump event, so an accurate numerical comparison couldn't be made, the photos did appear to show a significant disparity between the sizes of the crowds, with far fewer in attendance at Trump's inauguration than Obama's.

For obvious reasons, the side-by-side images were relished by anti-Trump factions, who shared and retweeted them all day long.


There was one instance in particular wherein a retweet of the photos caught the attention of incoming Trump officials, who deemed them inappropriate — so inappropriate, in fact, that the Department of Interior promptly deactivated every one of its Twitter accounts in response.
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National Park Service Twitter Account Shut Down After Anti-Trump Retweets : snopes.com

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Personally, I think whoever did this should be fired, I think twitter is just stupid anyway but if you're going to have these avenues of communication for a Federal Agency, they should be used for that purpose, not retweeting random partisan nonsense about crowd sizes and so on.
 
Though I agree with the focus of the tweet, I also agree with the 'boogieman, that this was totally inappropriate. Whoever did the tweet had probably put in his notice of resignation before the tweet went out.
 
Jetboogieman said:
National Park Service Twitter Account Shut Down After Anti-Trump Retweets : snopes.com

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Personally, I think whoever did this should be fired, I think twitter is just stupid anyway but if you're going to have these avenues of communication for a Federal Agency, they should be used for that purpose, not retweeting random partisan nonsense about crowd sizes and so on.
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Free speech is free speech... As long as there aren't any tweets threatening anyone or advocating violence, let people tweet what they want.



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Jetboogieman said:
You sure you read what I posted?
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Actually, I didn't and see that I misunderstood what happened. I thought Twitter had shut them down.

Based on what actually took place, I agree with your opinion on this.

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Jetboogieman said:
Personally, I think whoever did this should be fired, I think twitter is just stupid anyway but if you're going to have these avenues of communication for a Federal Agency, they should be used for that purpose, not retweeting random partisan nonsense about crowd sizes and so on.
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Don't like Trump at all, but agree with you here, it was a misuse of that twitter feed for this.
 
Jetboogieman said:
National Park Service Twitter Account Shut Down After Anti-Trump Retweets : snopes.com

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Personally, I think whoever did this should be fired, I think twitter is just stupid anyway but if you're going to have these avenues of communication for a Federal Agency, they should be used for that purpose, not retweeting random partisan nonsense about crowd sizes and so on.
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The tweet itself only deserves the action taken because it was a twitter account for a govt agency. Had it been someone within the agency doing such on their own account rather than an official govt one, the trump admin would have been able to do next to nothing, other than reply with an angry tweet.
 
RetiredUSN said:
Are these government employees making the tweets?
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It appears to be govt employees making them, using an govt account on twitter used for that agency. If a govt agency has a twitter, facebook etc it is usually for public outreach, promotions, and news feeds regaurding said agency, not to play politics.
 
apdst said:
No, it was the usual petty bull****.
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C'mon man, he posted the mrgreen smiley and everything. :mrgreen:

For my part, I would pounce on any lib who made that typo. It's all in good fun. :D
 
Grim17 said:
Free speech is free speech... As long as there aren't any tweets threatening anyone or advocating violence, let people tweet what they want.
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The issue is not that they can't tweet whatever they like. The issue is that they, a government agency, want to politicize their account. The poster probably would be fired if they allowed bureaucrats to be fired.
 
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