Cyrus 'deleted Twitter to keep privacy'

Miley Cyrus has explained her reasons for deleting her Twitter account.

In a rap posted on YouTube, the singer denied rumours that she closed her account because of her co-star Liam Hemsworth.

"Yo, it wasn't because my friend told me to," she rapped. "Y'all know very well what you say I don't do/ And the reasons are simple, I started tweeting about pimples/ I stopped living for moments and started living for people.

"Yeah, you write what you're doing but who really cares/ If I'm playing with [my sister] Noah or just doing my hair/ Everything that I type and everything that I do/ All those lame gossip sites take it and they make it news."

She continued: "I want my private life private, I'm done trying to please/ I ain't living for tabloids, no, I'm living for me/ No more emo quotes and fake feuds with Demi [Lovato]/ Yeah, I'm done with all that and the truth is I'm too busy."

Cyrus's father Billy Ray recently told her that she should reactivate her account.