Goodbye seems to be the hardest tweet for celebrities

Almost since coming to prominence, celebs have been quitting — and returning to — Twitter, says Jack Shafer.

ALMOST as much as celebrities love to tweet, they love to quit Twitter. And as much as they love to quit Twitter, they love to return to the social networking service.

If the search facility Nexis can be trusted, the first high-profile Twitter quitter was Miley Cyrus, who very publicly ditched the service in October 2009 at the behest of her boyfriend, actor Liam Hemsworth. Cyrus delineated her reasons for terminating her account in a rap video she uploaded, explaining to her 1.1m followers that she wanted to keep her “private life private”.