Andrew Strauss today revealed England's players would be issued with guidelines about the use of Twitter during the upcoming Ashes.
Captain Strauss and team director Andy Flower have decided against imposing an outright ban on the squad posting on the social networking website during the tour to Australia.
But they are keen to avoid the kind of furore which resulted from Kevin Pietersen's expletive-laden tweet after he was axed from the one-day side.
Pietersen is one of several of England's key players who regularly use Twitter, with others including James Anderson, Graeme Swann and Stuart Broad.
Strauss said: "We like to treat people like adults and a lot of people on our team like using it.
"We're going to come up with a set of guidelines as to what's best to put on there and what's best not to put on there.
"I think the players recognise they've got a responsibility to their team-mates to make sure that certain stuff stays within the four wall of the dressing room, and I think they're very happy to abide by that."
Asked if he planned to moderate players' tweets himself, Strauss said: "I think it'll be self-policing.
"The tweeter with the most fans can maybe oversee that sort of thing."
