LOS ANGELES, July 22 — Ghostbusters star Leslie Jones has returned to Twitter after a two-day hiatus.

She quit the social networking site on Tuesday after cyberbullies posted a series of hateful and racist tweets directed at her account.

"I leave Twitter tonight with tears and a very sad heart,” she wrote to her 250,000 followers.

"All this 'cause I did a movie. You can hate the movie, but the s**t I got today... wrong.”

But clearly, the 48-year-old comic couldn't stay away for long.

She took to Twitter last night with a lighthearted message: "Welp... a b**ch thought she could stay away. But who else is gonna live tweet Game of Thrones!!”

Jones was inundated by disturbing tweets over the weekend containing racial slurs, accusing her of being ugly and likening her to the recently-slain Cincinnati Zoo gorilla Harambe.

She responded to the abuse by screenshotting and retweeting many of the slurs, saying they had made her "numb.”

Twitter Inc said on Wednesday that it had moved to permanently suspend a number of user accounts in response to the abuse and harassment endured by Jones.

Among those banned was Breitbart tech editor Milo Yiannopoulos, who has been a controversial figure on the site and helped lead the abuse against Jones.

Twitter said in a statement, "We know many people believe we have not done enough to curb this type of behaviour on Twitter. We agree.

"We are continuing to invest heavily in improving our tools and enforcement systems to better allow us to identify and take faster action on abuse as it’s happening and prevent repeat offenders.”