The reason why Ed Sheeran quit Twitter

News24xx.com -  Ed Sheeran says he's quit Twitter after receiving a abuse.

"I've actually come off Twitter completely," he told. "I can't read it. I go on it and there's nothing but people saying mean things. One comment ruins your day. But that's why I've come off it (Twitter)."

The star, who has 19 million followers, says he'll keep the account open, but it will only share automatic updates from his Instagram page from now on.

A quick scan of Twitter shows why the 26-year-old singer has found it hard to cope.

 

"Revolting, fudged cultural appropriation," wrote David N, in which Sheeran describes falling for a girl who played the fiddle in an Irish band.

Another user described it as awful music, full of stereotypical nonsense.

Richard Roche had some helpful advice regarding the lyrics, which he described as: "Full of geographical inaccuracies (there's no pub on Grafton St)."

Most recently, Sheeran had to defend of himself against accusations of using a backing track during his headline set at Glastonbury.

In his last personally-authored tweet, the star sounded exasperated by the accusations.

"Never thought I'd have to explain it, it's a loop station, not a backing track," he wrote.

Other users took aim at Sheeran's televised Glastonbury show after he suffered guitar problems during the song Bloodstream.

"Ed Sheeran come to my house and I will show you how to tune a guitar you useless mess," wrote one.

Sheeran said that he had been trying to work out why people dislike me so much but the simple answer is that he's the victim of his own success.

His third album ÷ (Divide) is the year's biggest-seller, dominating the charts and radio around the world. In the UK, every song on the record made the top 20 of the singles chart, while the lead single, Shape Of You, spent 14 weeks at number one.

That sort of ubiquity draws out the more mean-spirited and aggressive users of Twitter.

Stars including Miley Cyrus, Sue Perkins, Stephen Fry, Halsey and Avengers director Joss Whedon have all quit the site after receiving abuse.