Lily Allen is to take a break from Twitter as a result of suffering a backlash from angered users after she reported an alleged racist tweet.

As previously reported, Allen was sent a reported offensive tweet from a solider recently on the social networking website, with the Army later confirming that they were investigating the incident.

The tweet said: "Just seen you bought s*** I mean adopted a child from Africa."

However, Allen has received a lot of abuse since the incident from people who believe the user in question isn't racist. Today (July 12) Allen tweeted:

"Ok I'm leaving twitter for a few days,hmmmm maybe hours, we'll see. The stupidity of some people on here is astounding."

The aunt of the soldier meanwhile told The Sun that her nephew isn't racist. She said:

"There is not a racist bone in his body. It has been taken the wrong way, there should have been a comma to make it clearer. There is nothing you could say about him, he is such a lovely person. No way was it meant in a racist way."