I find Twitter fascinating. I follow more than 100 celebrities and I am genuinely curious about what they are doing. A couple weeks ago one of the celebrities I follow decided to drop her Twitter account. Miley Cyrus disappeared from cyber space to the dismay of millions of fans waiting on their hands to read her 140 characters of what she is doing. Granted, I read a lot of her tweets but mainly out of being a pop culture fiend and not particularly a Miley Cyrus fan.

According to a statement she made (after putting a rap explaining why on YouTube) she says, “How can I whine about my life being too public if I am the one telling the world what I am doing?” I think she has a point. If you so choose, you can tell everyone every detail of your life and she had the tendency to do that. Using cryptic lyrics to express her love for a boy or that she was cuddling with her mommy on the tour bus, she knew that millions of fans were reading them as well as gossip writers who capitalize off of them.

I believe that her intentions were good but I don't think that Twitter changed the privacy of celebrities. Celebrities have always known how to get attention and they hunger for it in the beginning. After awhile they start to realize that being in the public eye constantly isn't always glamorous. They start to backlash and get negative attention because they are suddenly shunning the photographers and writers that they once welcomed with open arms.

So don't blame Twitter, Miley. Blame the fame itself. Privacy is not a luxury you have anymore, you're the star.

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