Hamilton may stop using Twitter

Lewis Hamilton has admitted he may stop using the popular social network Twitter. The McLaren driver has been at the center of several controversies this year due to his "tweets": first he published confidential telemetry data and, recently, he accused his teammate Jenson Button of no longer being among the his “followers” ​​after signing his contract with Mercedes. Hamilton then realized that his teammate was never among the subscribers to his account.

After the latest gaffe Hamilton no longer used Twitter.

“I think I've made a lot of mistakes in my life and that was one of them,” he said in Korea on Thursday. “But you learn from mistakes and maybe Twitter isn't for me.”

Button was asked about the controversy by journalists in the press room and was forced to explain why he follows several riders on Twitter such as Pedro de la Rosa, Mark Webber and Paul di Resta but not his teammate: “There are millions of people to follow on Twitter. I see him (Hamilton, ed.) every weekend."

Button also follows Sergio Perez who will be his new teammate at McLaren in 2013: “I follow him because I wanted to welcome him. And now I can't help but follow him. I'm not allowed to do anything on Twitter these days. For me it's incredible that we are here talking about this, here at a Grand Prix."

Button admitted having received an apology from Hamilton: "You have to be careful what you post on Twitter when you have over a million followers."