After short hiatus Glacier Park, Park Service back on Twitter

Social media enthusiasts may have noticed that Glacier National Park didn’t post anything to Twitter over the Jan. 21-22 weekend. It wasn’t because the Park had nothing to say — an order from the Service put a hold on tweets Park Service-wide.

Park spokeswoman Lauren Alley said the hold didn’t include other social media like Facebook.

The Service got sideways with the Trump administration after it retweeted aerial pictures of the Trump inauguration crowd compared to former president Barack Obama’s crowds four years earlier at the National Mall.

Trump’s crowds were smaller, despite a claim by the Trump administration otherwise.

The National Park Service then tweeted, “We regret the mistaken RTs from our account yesterday and look forward to continuing to share the beauty and history of our parks with you.”

RTs stands for retweets.

The Park Service later told CNN that it put a hold on the Twitter accounts because it thought it may have been hacked. The Park Service apparently stopped estimating crowd size events at the mall after a controversy over the Million Man March in 1995. The Service estimated at that time about 400,000 attended the event, while event organizers claimed they actually did have 1 million people.

For its part, Glacier was merrily tweeting away by Monday. It’s Tweet on Wednesday was informative — a link to snow depths at the Flattop Mountain Snotel site.