Pop star and Twitter heavy hitter John Mayer has announced that he has posted his last tweet and will not be using the social networking website from now on.

A representative for the singer announced that Mayer, who has amassed a following of over 3.7 million subscribers on the microblogging site, will be abandoning Twitter as he returns to the studio to record a follow-up to the 2009 album Battle Studies.

Mayer officially closed his account with the final tweet: "What does this button do?