POP star Lily Allen has admitted she spends around five hours a day on Twitter.

The singer, who has more than 5.9 million Twitter followers, said she has a “love-hate relationship” with the social media platform, adding it takes up “way too much time.”

Appearing on U.K. show “Sunday Brunch,” Allen said she uses the site to find out news and speak to her fans.

“I find so much from there,” she said. “It’s not all just ‘self’.”

Allen, 33, was a guest on the Sunday chat and cookery show to promote her new album “No Shame” when the conversation turned to social media.

The performer was one of the first singers to use publicity from social media to help her career, after the buzz around her MySpace uploads helped her secure a record deal.

She is a regular tweeter and has been involved in online spats with high-profile figures including former English Defence League leader Tommy Robinson and more recently, broadcaster Piers Morgan.

She said she was “more worried about Instagram” for her two daughters Ethel, 6 and Marnie, 5, because the platform is “so much about visuals, body image and stuff like that.”

Allen added, “Their relationship with social media is when they watch me just refreshing. They ask ‘what are you doing?’

“I’m like ‘just work’ and they say, ‘Oh yeah, because you have to get people to like you’!”

(SD-Agencies)