Hannah Montana Disney Channel star Miley Cyrus ditches Twitter

Miley Cyrus says she deleted herself from social networking site Twitter in order to regain some sort of "normal" private life.

The 16-year-old Disney star wrote a message on her website apologising to fans who were upset she had left Twitter and explaining her reasons.

Miley wrote: "Twitter is a beautiful thing if used for the right reason. I love my job so much that it is hard to believe sometimes that it is considered 'working'. But, in the end it is still a business and I do need some sort of a 'normal' life as well.

"How can I whine about my life being so public if I am the one telling the world what I am doing?"