The first Twitter transition, it seems, while seamless at the top-level @POTUS account, isn’t so among the many hundreds, if not thousands, of Twitter-verified executive branch accounts.

The controversy started with the National Park Service’s retweeting of crowd picture comparisons of Barack Obama and Donald Trump’s competing inaugurations. A multi-day fracas between the Trump administration’s Sean Spicer and Kellyanne Conway and the press ensued over a measuring of the length and girth of Trump’s in-person inaugural crowd. Trump’s people instructed NPS to cut it out.