Washington, Feb 28 : Miley Cyrus was infuriated when one Twitter follower tweeted to her on Sunday that she "dresses like white trash" and told her "to die".

The 19-year-old singer has asked Twitter bosses to implement new safety controls after she received a number of menacing messages through the micro blogging site.

After seeing the vile messages, Cyrus took to her Twitter account to reply to them.

"U (sic) have nothing better 2 (sic) do than hate? That saddens me," Contactmusic quoted her as tweeting.

"I'm surrounded by love I'm sorry 4 (sic) whatever happened 2 make u so bitter. (I) won't tolerate someone telling me 2 die," she wrote.

She then went on to urge Twitter chiefs to take action against users who post nasty comments.

"I think Twitter needs to take some responsibility and make it a safe environment," she wrote. (ANI)