US National Park Service Forced to Cease Use of Twitter Until Further Notice

A few thoughts:

The National Mall is an NPS property, so it makes sense at one level that they would tweet photos of it relative to the inauguration.

This particular comparison, however valid it may be, does carry political connotations, however, and government agencies should present a more politically neutral tone. They represent all of us, not just a particular party.

A blanket ban for even just one agency, let alone every agency under the Department of the Interior posting on Twitter is ridiculous overkill for something like this. The person who posted it should get be reprimanded if it was deliberate, or even be fired under certain circumstances, but banning the entire agency from using Twitter is absurd, especially when federal land management agencies often use Twitter as one means of communicating hazardous conditions and closures to the public.

A national Park Service RSS feed would be a better use of taxpayer money than validating a single propitiatory commercial messing app.

One thing that bothers me about the 2017 photo is I've seen heaps of others from the same day and it looked like there were heaps of people - not as many as Obama but way way more than what's shown in the picture.

So is it just from earlier in the day or something?

Nitpick: It's the National Park Service, not Parks.