Miley Cyrus Twitter Saga: Billy Ray Begs Star To Return To Tweets

NEW YORK — Most parents want their kids to twitter less, but not Billy Ray Cyrus.

The country music star is urging daughter Miley Cyrus to return to Twitter. The 16-year-old pop star quit the microblogging site earlier this week, puzzling her fans. She had more than 1.1 million followers on the site.

Her father tweeted Thursday that Miley "can't leave everyone now" and said "we r countin on u."

Miley Cyrus' account is no longer active. In one of her last posts, she wrote that Liam Hemsworth, her co-star in the upcoming film "The Last Song," wanted her to delete her Twitter account "with good reason."

Publicists for Cyrus and her father haven't returned requests for comment.

Comments

[11907281]

He should get the Joe Simpson Award for this one.

[Sing Out and Slap Iron]

Does this achy-breaky a$$h*ole skieve out anybody else but me?

[wtrichard95]

many Thanks Billy Ray.... I have found a fan of miley uploaded video to youtube that he was just crazy about miley's account deletion. I found it here: http://www.celebrise.com/blog/2009/10/09/miley-cyrus-is-no-more-in-twitter.html

[newTheory]

How ironic. The 16 yo making an adult-like decision while the adult is making a teenager-like decision.

[LetMeUnderstandThis]

he is pathetic as many of the hollyweird parents

[deeppeace]

Ohferchrissakes. Why is this here?

Hey, dad, isn't that something you should be discussing with your teenage daughter over - oh, I don't know - BREAKFAST?!

[csmcmillion]

Photo caption: "That thar's ma girl - and if'n anyone tweets her twitter it's gonna be me!"

[MarsAmbassador]

Billy Ray should focus more on trying to not look like a fancy boy who spent 3 hours in the stylist chair before leaving the house. Him and Keith Urban both.

[suzy chicago]

uhm, gross that her dad wouldn't respect her decision. it's a good decision.