Banned! Adele is locked out of Twitter due to DRUNK tweeting

Ever woken up with a hangover, checked your Twitter timeline and cringed?

Drunk tweeting is never a good idea, but if you just so happen to have 23.8million followers hanging on your every word, then it's most definitely a bad decision.

Adele admits she learnt that the hard way a few years back, when she had her Twitter privileges removed after sending a few too many ill-advised tweets.

"When Twitter first came out I was, like, drunk tweeting, and nearly put my foot in it quite a few times," she revealed during a BBC Special last night.

Even though she doesn't drink these days, the Hello singer says she still prefers to let someone else manage her social media.

Nowadays each tweet Adele writes has to go through not one but two different members of her team before going live.

"My management decided that you have to go through two people and then it has to be signed off by someone, but they're all my tweets," she explained, after being asked about the rumour that she had no access to her own Twitter account.

"No one writes my tweets. They just post them for me. So, yeah, that's very, very true."

Throwing it way back with this! Thank you for all the love, I am so blown away. X #TBT pic.twitter.com/MdpONeUnEt

— Adele (@Adele) October 29, 2015

Adele's not the only celebrity to have employed a social media manager in recent years – it's quite common among Hollywood's elite, in fact.

Lena Dunham recently revealed that she had sworn off checking her own Twitter notifications or posting her own tweets, after repeated incidents of online bullying.

"It really, truly wasn't a safe space for me," she said. 

"'Even if you think, like, 'Oh I can read, like, ten mentions that say I should be stoned to death' and kind of, like, laugh and move on.

"That's verbal abuse. Those aren't words that should be directed at you ever."