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Teen star Miley Cyrus says she decided to delete her Twitter account so that she could keep her personal life just that - personal - using the popular video sharing site YouTube to tell everyone.
"I'm done tryin' to please, I ain't livin' for tabloids, I am living for me," the 16-year-old singer and star of Disney's hit TV show Hannah Montana sang in a Goodbye Twitter rap posted on YouTube.
Cyrus, a busy Tweeter with a following of more than one million people, made headlines on Thursday by suddenly quitting Twitter, a popular microblogging site which lets users from celebrities to businesses and politicians post messages or tweets of up to 140 characters.
Fans around the world quickly launched an online campaign - on Twitter - to try and get her back.
In one of her last tweets, Cyrus said her current boyfriend, Australian actor Liam Hemsworth, did not have a Twitter account "and wants me to delete mine with good reason."
In May Cyrus posted an angry tirade on her Twitter web page following a flurry of criticism about her weight.
But in Friday's YouTube rap video, the Hannah Montana actress denied that her friend was the cause and said she was fed up with the media turning her 140-character remarks into news.
"The rumors are true, I deleted my Twitter," she sang, saying she had started "tweeting about pimples", had stopped "living for moments" and instead had "started living for people."
"Everything that I type, Everything that I do, some gossip site makes it news," she added.
With her Hannah Montana Disney Channel show, a movie and several
best-selling albums, Cyrus is currently one of the biggest teen
stars in the world.
