{"id":1917681,"date":"2023-04-21T10:56:29","date_gmt":"2023-04-21T14:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bette-midler-melts-down-over-losing-blue-check-on-twitter-contributed-mightily-to-your-platform\/"},"modified":"2023-04-21T11:04:21","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T15:04:21","slug":"bette-midler-melts-down-over-losing-blue-check-on-twitter-contributed-mightily-to-your-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bette-midler-melts-down-over-losing-blue-check-on-twitter-contributed-mightily-to-your-platform\/","title":{"rendered":"Bette Midler Melts Down Over Losing Blue Check On Twitter: \u2018Contributed Mightily To Your Platform\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbette-midler-melts-down-over-losing-blue-check-on-twitter-contributed-mightily-to-your-platform%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1917681&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Leftist activist and actress <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/bette-midler\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bette Midler<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> had a tantrum on <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/twitter\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> after she lost her blue checkmark Thursday as part of a planned update to the social media platform.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cElon, deciding that I\u2019m not me, I\u2019m a fake, &#038; obliging ME, who has contributed mightily to your platform, (at least until you \u201ctweaked the algorithm &#038; tanked my metrics\u201d) to pay monthly because you don\u2019t have enough money &#038; you\u2019re humiliated b\/c everyone thinks you\u2019re a pathetic douche, is the funniest thing you\u2019ve ever done. Let that sink in. Sorry to hear about your rocket,\u201d she <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BetteMidler\/status\/1649218711348473856\">wrote<\/a>, addressing billionaire Twitter owner <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/elon-musk\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Elon Musk<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The \u201cHocus Pocus\u201d <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/celebrities\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">actress<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> had already complained about the development earlier in the day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cElon took my blue check away! I\u2019m unverified! After all these years and thousands of tweets and free content, this worm has the nerve to de-certify me,\u201d she wrote. That message went viral, earning 1.9 million views and many mocking replies.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Elon took my blue check away! I\u2019m unverified!  After all these years and thousands of tweets and free content, this worm has the nerve to de-certify me!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 bettemidler (@BetteMidler) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BetteMidler\/status\/1649136484463808512?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 20, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cSorry for your loss, life is tough,\u201d the Hodge twins <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hodgetwins\/status\/1649364396899008513\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">wrote<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cAnd you are\u2026?\u201d Ron Coleman <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RonColeman\/status\/1649182920282710016\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">replied<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Another user replied to Coleman with, \u201cI didn\u2019t even know she was still alive, much less on Twitter.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cIf you had any self awareness, this tweet would embarrass you,\u201d a third person <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tweettruth2me\/status\/1649206995566600194\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">said<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Following the update, only government accounts were eligible for free verification on Twitter. Individuals and businesses now need to pay the social media platform $8 per month to be part of the Twitter Blue program, which also permits the edit feature on tweets.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-9096\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1681913061093000&#038;usg=AOvVaw1nSUp7X_GMxrPR-OuaxTA7\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Meme maker Carpe Donktum started a joke GoFundMe for Midler to raise funds for her verification. \u201cIn light of the recent Blue Check tragedy. A GoFundMe has been set up for one of the most tragic victims, [Bette Midler],\u201d user CasuallyGreg <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CasuallyGreg\/status\/1649386803374485505\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">wrote<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. \u201cPlease donate what you can to support this poor unfortunate woman.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As of Friday morning, the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/help-a-witch-get-verified\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">campaign<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> had raised $160.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">While almost all celebrities lost their blue checkmarks with the update, Musk made sure that three prominent figures who publicly promised they would never subscribe to Twitter Blue kept their verified status despite not paying for it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">NBA star LeBron James, horror author Stephen King, and \u201cStar Trek\u201d actor William Shatner are all still verified on Twitter.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">King tweeted on Thursday, \u201cMy Twitter account says I\u2019ve subscribed to Twitter Blue. I haven\u2019t. My Twitter account says I\u2019ve given a phone number. I haven\u2019t.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Musk replied by saying, \u201cYou\u2019re welcome namaste.\u201d The world\u2019s richest man later <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1649211324344201218\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">confirmed<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> he had kept blue checks for \u201cjust Shatner, LeBron and King.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leftist activist and actress Bette Midler had a tantrum on Twitter after she lost her blue checkmark Thursday as part of a planned update to the social media platform. \u201cElon, deciding that I\u2019m not me, I\u2019m a fake, &amp; obliging ME, who has contributed mightily to your platform, (at least until you \u201ctweaked the algorithm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":345,"featured_media":1917682,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[24821,4138,5335,21911,8371,8359,24820,24819,3987,4253],"class_list":["post-1917681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-bette","tag-blue","tag-check","tag-contributed","tag-losing","tag-melts","tag-midler","tag-mightily","tag-platform","tag-twitter"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1917681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/345"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1917681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1917681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1917682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1917681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1917681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1917681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}