That Was Fast: Badlands National Park Account Deletes Climate Change Tweets

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By Kristin Salaky

January 24, 2017 5:51 p.m.

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Since the Badlands National Parks Service account tweeted some facts about climate change Tuesday afternoon, they appear to have been deleted with no explanation.

Since #Badlands National Park has now been scrubbed and my retweets are gone, let’s do it this way. pic.twitter.com/gTrEG2Jgbm

— sabrina (@sa_bing) January 24, 2017

The tweets disappeared from the Badlands National Park timeline around 5:30 p.m. ET. The National Parks Service media was unavailable for comment Tuesday evening and the Midwest regional office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The NPS apparently had gotten itself in trouble with the administration over the weekend after it retweeted some unflattering tweets about President Trump and his inauguration crowd size.

The Washington Post reported that the Department of the Interior was ordered to stop tweeting Friday, but by Saturday the NPS had apologized for the tweets and was back online.

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Kristin Salaky Kristin is the Front Page Editor based in New York City. She is a graduate of Ohio University and her byline has been featured in Marie Claire and Cosmopolitan. Follow her on Twitter @kristinsalaky.

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inversion says:

January 24, 2017

Welcome to the future

Now watch upper management get pwd control.
ralph_vonholst says:

January 24, 2017

inversion:

Welcome to the future

Now watch upper management get pwd control.

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maximus says:

January 24, 2017

Didn’t George Orwell write about something like this?
sanni says:

January 24, 2017

Irony: the Twitter King is getting teed off by twittering. When does he start threatening Twitter directly? Oh, he can’t do that it’s his sweet addiction.
maximus says:

January 24, 2017

inversion:

Now watch upper management get pwd control.

Portuguese Water Dogs?