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Ashton Kutcher has handed over control of his twitter account to his management team, after catching himself in the middle of a scandal thanks to a misinformed tweet.

Ashton put his support behind a disgraced football coach who was fired thanks to his involvement in a child sex scandal.

After a deluge of abusive tweets, Ashton soon realised he wasn't aware of all the facts and deleted the comment – but that didn't stop the negative feedback.

He then posted a link to his blog announcing that he was handing "management of the feed over to my team at [his management] Katalyst as a secondary editorial measure, to ensure the quality of this content."

"When I first started using Twitter, it was a communication platform that people could say what they were thinking in real time, and if their facts were wrong the community would quickly and helpfully reframe an opinion," he wrote.

"It seems that today Twitter has grown into a mass publishing platform, where one's tweets quickly become news that is broadcast around the world and misinformation becomes volatile fodder for critics."

Do you think Ashton's tweets will be boring now?