--- title: Game of Thrones: Ed Sheeran Didn't Delete Twitter Over Cameo description: Ed Sheeran clarified why he deleted his Twitter, which many fans thought may have been because of negative comments about his cameo. canonical: https://time.com/4864929/ed-sheeran-game-of-thrones-twitter-deleted-cameo/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-07-19T17:48:14.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-10-08T09:24:08.518Z og:title: Ed Sheeran Explains Why He Deleted His Twitter Account og:description: 'Why the h-ll would I worry what people thought about that?' og:url: https://time.com/4864929/ed-sheeran-game-of-thrones-twitter-deleted-cameo/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt561c3f08787ad167/6988d650e76ad29b6162e63f/ed-sheeran-twitter-cameo.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: 48th Annual Songwriters Hall Of Fame Induction And Awards Gala og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Ed Sheeran Explains Why He Deleted His Twitter Account twitter:description: 'Why the h-ll would I worry what people thought about that?' twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt561c3f08787ad167/6988d650e76ad29b6162e63f/ed-sheeran-twitter-cameo.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # No, Ed Sheeran Didn't Delete Twitter Because of His _Game of Thrones_ Cameo > Sponsored content. 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MONEY VIDEO_ by [Dave Quinn / People](https://time.com/author/people/) ## Dave Quinn / People Contributor Jul 19, 2017 5:48 PM UTC MONEY VIDEO by [Dave Quinn / People](https://time.com/author/people/) ## Dave Quinn / People Contributor Jul 19, 2017 5:48 PM UTC [Ed Sheeran](http://people.com/tag/ed-sheeran) shocked his fans when [he deleted his Twitter account Monday](http://people.com/music/ed-sheeran-deletes-his-twitter-account/), leaving many to wonder whether some of the [negative comments he received](https://twitter.com/DanaSchwartzzz/status/886762205122891777) about his [surprise cameo on Sunday night’s season 7 premiere](http://people.com/tv/game-of-thrones-musician-cameo-shocks-fans/) of [_Game of Thrones_](http://people.com/tag/game-of-thrones/)drove him off the popular social media site. But the 26-year-old “Shape of You” singer made it clear that those two things were not related in [a passionate Instagram post](https://www.instagram.com/p/BWu%5FQyaFs0v/?hl=en) Wednesday. “Last I’ll say on this,” he began. “I came off Twitter \[because\] I was always intending to come off Twitter. \[It\] had nothing to do with what people said about my _Game of Thrones_ cameo \[or\] because I am in _Game of Thrones._ Why the hell would I worry what people thought about that? It’s clearly f—ing awesome.” “Timing was just a coincidence, but believe what you want,” Sheeran continued. His words came attached to a photo of the singer holding his manager’s hand while on the tarmac at Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport. “Here is an unrelated picture of me and my wonderful manager riding off into the sunset together,” he joked. While Sheeran’s handle disappeared off the popular site late Monday and reappeared Tuesday evening with a note — I don’t use this anymore, please follow me on @teddysphotos on instagram, lots of love x — he remains active elsewhere. The day he went dark from Twitter, he posting a photo on Instagram with girlfriend Cherry Seaborn while “climbing mountains in Peru.” As his Sheerios surely remember, Sheeran has had a complicated relationship with social media and Twitter specifically — telling [_The Sun_](https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/3939544/ed-sheeran-forced-to-quit-twitter-after-revealing-vile-comments-bring-him-down/)in an interview published July 3 that he [“can’t read” Twitter](http://people.com/music/ed-sheeran-driven-off-twitter-trolls/) anymore due to the negativity. [He clarified his comments on _Today_ days later](http://people.com/music/ed-sheeran-didnt-quit-twitter-stopped-reading-tweets-about-himself/), explaining ‘I don’t even go on Twitter anymore.’ ” “I’m just not going to wake up and read something and be like, ‘Well, that’s rude,’ ” he said. “I don’t want to choose to do that anymore. …There’s so much positivity out there. As a human being, we always read the one negative one and ignore the others, and I don’t want to do that. It’s just foolish to do when there’s love out there in the world to look at the negative stuff. I’m just choosing not to read it.” Sheeran told _The Sun_ that he still finds that a troll can bring him down. “One comment ruins your day,” he shared. “The head f— for me has been trying to work out why people dislike me so much.” It’s unknown whether Sheeran’s character on _Game of Thrones_ will return for a future episode. But the British pop star will be back on TV soon — voicing a musician on [an upcoming episode of ](http://ew.com/tv/2017/07/17/the-simpsons-ed-sheeran/)[_The Simpsons_](http://ew.com/tv/2017/07/17/the-simpsons-ed-sheeran/)_._ He’s also currently on tour in support of his latest album, _÷_, which was released in March. _This_ [_article_](http://people.com/music/ed-sheeran-explains-why-he-quit-twitter/) _originally appeared on_ [_People.com_](http://www.people.com) ## Transcript [00:23] [ MUSIC ] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4864929/ed-sheeran-game-of-thrones-twitter-deleted-cameo/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4864929/ed-sheeran-game-of-thrones-twitter-deleted-cameo/"},"headline":"No, Ed Sheeran Didn't Delete Twitter Because of His Game of Thrones Cameo","datePublished":"2017-07-19T17:48:14.000Z","dateModified":"2026-10-08T09:24:08.518Z","description":"Ed Sheeran clarified why he deleted his Twitter, which many fans thought may have been because of negative comments about his cameo.","url":"https://time.com/4864929/ed-sheeran-game-of-thrones-twitter-deleted-cameo/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Social Media","Television","game of thrones","celebrities","Music","twitter","trolls","ed sheeran"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt561c3f08787ad167/6988d650e76ad29b6162e63f/ed-sheeran-twitter-cameo.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Dave Quinn / People"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt561c3f08787ad167/6988d650e76ad29b6162e63f/ed-sheeran-twitter-cameo.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"48th Annual Songwriters Hall Of Fame Induction And Awards Gala","caption":"48th Annual Songwriters Hall Of Fame Induction And Awards Gala","creditText":"Noam Galai—WireImage/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4864929/ed-sheeran-game-of-thrones-twitter-deleted-cameo/","name":"No, Ed Sheeran Didn't Delete Twitter Because of His Game of Thrones Cameo"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"10 Youngest and Richest Celebs on the Forbes 100 List MONEY","description":"MONEY VIDEO","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/5R3VWurI/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2017-06-22T14:56:18.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/5R3VWurI.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4864929/ed-sheeran-game-of-thrones-twitter-deleted-cameo/","duration":"PT1M37S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4864929/ed-sheeran-game-of-thrones-twitter-deleted-cameo/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```