{"id":12084,"date":"2017-01-24T07:37:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-24T12:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/?p=12084"},"modified":"2024-11-15T17:49:20","modified_gmt":"2024-11-15T22:49:20","slug":"a-national-parks-service-twitter-account-just-became-a-folk-hero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2017\/01\/24\/a-national-parks-service-twitter-account-just-became-a-folk-hero\/","title":{"rendered":"A National Parks Service Twitter account just became a folk hero"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Social media, especially Twitter, played a central role in the rise of Donald Trump from celebrity TV host and real-estate magnate to 45th president of the United States. So it seems fitting that Twitter was also the scene of a strange kind of guerrilla uprising on Tuesday against the Trump administration and its practices involving social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What seems to have triggered the revolt was the treatment of a National Parks Service account on the weekend. After it re-posted Twitter updates that called into question the size of the crowds at Trump’s inauguration, the account’s activity was frozen<\/a>. The following day, the tweets in question had been deleted, replaced by an apology for “the mistaken retweets.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other government agencies, including the EPA and the USDA’s research arm, have also had their social-media accounts frozen indefinitely<\/a> as of Tuesday, and staff memos have said that these accounts will likely be more “centrally controlled” in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the face of all this, the Twitter account for Badlands National Park in South Dakota posted a series of tweets<\/a> on Tuesday calling attention to the rise of global warming, something President Trump has publicly referred to as a hoax. The posts drew cheers, along with thousands of re-tweets, and the account quickly gained tens of thousands of new followers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Note<\/strong>: This was\u00a0originally published<\/a>\u00a0at Fortune, where I was a senior writer from 2015 to 2017<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Unfortunately for fans of the account, however, this short-lived rebellion was quickly put down. The tweets in question were deleted just hours after the series began — including one that quoted from the 1916 law that created the National Park Service. Whether Twitter becomes the chosen tool of other anti-Trump rebels within the administration remains to be seen.<\/p>\n

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Social media, especially Twitter, played a central role in the rise of Donald Trump from celebrity TV host and real-estate magnate to 45th president of the United States. So it seems fitting that Twitter was also the scene of a strange kind of guerrilla uprising on Tuesday against the Trump administration and its practices involving … <\/p>\n

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