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Just days after The National Park Service (NPS) was forced to shut down its Twitter activity over two retweets the Department of the Interior deemed inconsistent with the agency’s mission, the Twitter account for Badlands National Park in South Dakota seems to have gone rogue, tweeting numerous scientific facts about climate change that have since been deleted. The first tweet about climate science came at 11:40 a.m. local time Tuesday. It said: “The pre-industrial concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere was 280 parts per million (ppm). As of December 2016, 404.93 ppm.”

As President Donald Trump begins his first week in the Oval Office, Democrats want to send him a message by tuning him out on his preferred platform: Twitter. The newsletter Signal Boost, launched by former Hillary Clinton campaign staffers Jess McIntosh and Zerlina Maxwell, announced on Sunday that it was launching #mutemonday, a Twitter hashtag urging users to unfollow Trump's personal @realDonaldTrump Twitter and the official @POTUS account and follow progressive organizations and leaders instead.

Donald Trump is known for his frequent use of Twitter, but on Monday profane terms typed into Twitter’s search function produced a result that would likely not please President Trump. When the terms “a--hole” or “a--holes” were typed into Twitter’s search, Trump’s personal Twitter profile @realDonaldTrump came up under the “People” category. Below Trump’s profile the search queries returned instances of people using those terms in their tweets in a variety of contexts.

The U.S. Department of the Interior’s National Park Service purposefully raised hell on its official government Twitter account last Friday during the Inauguration Ceremony when the NPS re-tweeted a tweet belittling the newly elected President. The original tweet, made by Binyamin Appelbaum, a New York Times correspondent, read, “Compare the crowds: 2009 inauguration at left, 2017 inauguration at right” and featured a biased split image of Obama’s 2009 Inauguration vs. Trump’s 2017 Inauguration. Compare the crowds: 2009 inauguration at left, 2017 inauguration at right.#Inauguration pic.twitter.com/y7RhIR2nfC — Binyamin Appelbaum (@BCAppelbaum) January 20, 2017

“Who wore it better: Kellyanne Conway or Paddington Bear?” one Twitter user writes about Conway’s red, white and blue inauguration style The inauguration of a new president is certainly supposed to be a patriotic day, however Donald Trump’s White House counselor Kellyanne Conway took the theme to the extreme with her red, white and blue outfit Friday. On such a serious day when the swearing in of the new POTUS sparked protests and riots across the country, Conway’s far-out fashion, at least, provided a source of light entertainment on social media. While her Gucci A-line wool coat with cat-head buttons...

Donald Trump might have violated US law on his first full day as President of the United States. Trump posted to both his personal account and the official @POTUS account throughout the day but deleted one particular tweet from his personal account - a potential violation of the Presidential Records Act. On Saturday morning, he tweeted: 'I am honered to serve you, the great American People, as your 45th President of the United States!' Thousands poked fun at his incorrect spelling of the word 'honored' and within minutes the tweet was deleted and a new one went up with the...

The New York Times Video Twitter account appears to have been hacked – possibly twice – Sunday morning. The @NYTvideo account tweeted “BREAKING: leaked statement from Vladimir Putin says: Russia will attack the United States with Missiles”. The post was taken down by 10 a.m., but was soon replaced with statements from the hacker group OurMine claiming to have co-opted the Twitter account to say that the Putin message was posted by a different hacker. 

The new feature at Bloomberg is another example of how the business world is approaching the Trump presidency and its relationship with social media.  January 21, 2017 —President Donald Trump said at an inauguration ball Friday that he thinks he'll continue tweeting "as a way of bypassing dishonest media." Wall Street is ready.  Bloomberg terminals recently launched a partnership with Twitter, enabling traders to track and trade off Mr. Trump's tweets. The new feature of the financial reporting system is just another example of how the business world is grappling with the new reality of the Trump presidency

President-elect Donald Trump declared in an interview released late Tuesday that he dislikes tweeting and uses Twitter as a defense against media. “Look, I don’t like tweeting,” Trump insisted during a Fox News interview scheduled to air Wednesday. "I have other things I could be doing.” “But I get very dishonest media, very dishonest press. And it’s my only way that I can counteract. When people make misstatements about me, I’m able to say it and call it out.”

If Trump were to create his own platform for Exclusive Executive Use...and cease to use Twitter.....he could drive a fatal blow into Twitter.....Everyone would have to subscribe in order to be in the know. I think he should call it "Trumpet"....and send out "Toots" LOL. What do you think?

Donald Trump plans to keep using his personal Twitter account, the president-elect confirmed in a weekend interview, noting that he “can go bing bing bing” and make national news using his social media accounts. “@realDonaldTrump I think, I’ll keep it,” Trump told the Times of London in the interview published Monday, saying he won’t personally be taking over the @POTUS account used by the president. Trump admitted that he thought he’d be utilizing social media less frequently but claimed “it’s working.” “I thought I’d do less of it, but I’m covered so dishonestly by the press — so dishonestly —...

A new Sunday Times interview between British Parliament member Michael Gove and our soon-to-be Supreme Leader Donald Trump offers much interesting insight into how Trump will use Twitter as president. When Gove asked about whether Trump would use the @POTUS handle, he offered up the following response: @realDonaldTrump I think, I’ll keep it . . . so I’ve got 46 million people right now — that’s a lot, that’s really a lot — but 46 million — including Facebook, Twitter and ya know, Instagram, so when you think that you’re 46 million there, I’d rather just let that build up...

.@FoxNews "Outgoing CIA Chief, John Brennan, blasts Pres-Elect Trump on Russia threat. Does not fully understand." Oh really, couldn't do much worse - just look at Syria (red line), Crimea, Ukraine and the build-up of Russian nukes. Not good! Was this the leaker of Fake News?

Rep. Justin Amash (R-Mich.) knocked President-elect Donald Trump on Saturday for his response to backlash over attacking Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.). "Dude, just stop," Amash tweeted, linking to a tweet from Trump. Trump suggested Saturday that he and Lewis work together to focus on the nation's inner cities after a number of Democratic and Republican lawmakers slammed him for saying Lewis was "all talk" and "no action."

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