Wednesday 13th November 2013 by Michael Baggs | Photos by WENN.com

Tags: Deadmau5

The internet became a less entertaining place today (13 November, 2013) as Canadian DJ and producer Deadmau5 announced he was retiring from Twitter.

The brilliantly outspoken dance star has been a hate figure for pop fans in recent years as he refused to keep his opionions to himself (and nor should he), and in 2013 alone felt the wrath of fans of both Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber online.

Now, Deadmau5 (real name Joel Zimmerman) has revealed that his management team will maintain the twitter account with less entertaining updates about new releases. Read Deadmau5's statement, posted on his Tumblr account, on quitting Twitter below.

"I’m no longer going to be managing my own twitter account for “deadmau5”. I’m going to let management deal with that account. My reasons are my own, not because of something i said, not because of this hilarious I.R.A. vs “ira” craic, not because of lady gaga’s infinite legions of brain dead fans. but as i said… reasons of my own.

"Perhaps ill return to that in world as some reincarnation of sort, but for now, that’s off the table for me. I’ll continue to upload new music to my soundcloud, and the twitter account will point you in the right direction for the most recent happenings… but enough’s enough with living on twitter. Time to at least start by living in the studio making music without having to be force-fed stupid shit that annoys me, when all i’m trying to do is connect with fans.

"As for the fans, thanks for all your continued support and understanding of my decision to personally unplug myself from the very thing that’s making me upset. As i’ve mentioned, the account will remain alive, and *my team* (yeah i went there) will keep you just as updated on the ongoings with new music and shit that actually matters.

"To leave you with some good news, my new Tricaster arrives today. SO perhaps ill be streaming video with direct audio a lot more often.

"thanks for having my back on this one."

-Joel

Deadmau5 has now deleted every tweet he has ever posted, with just two remaining (at time of publish). One, a link to the blog above and the second to a link to a video stream of his new, chilled out EP release, 7.

Below: look back on some of Deadmau5's most brilliant online rants