Cowell Not a Fan of Celeb Twittering

'Why would you want to?' he asks on the air
By Sarah Quinn,  Newser Staff
Posted Apr 2, 2009 8:20 AM CDT
Cowell Not a Fan of Celeb Twittering
"American Idol" judges Simon Cowell, Paula Abdul, and Randy Jackson at a news conference on Sept. 28, 2005.   (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, file)

Always one to judge, Simon Cowell is going after fellow celebrities who are hooked on Twitter, the Daily Telegraph reports. "It's like phoning someone randomly whose number you don't even have and saying: 'Hi, it's Simon, I went out with my family this weekend,'" he said. But maybe there's another reason for the anti-Twitter stance: American Idol co-star Ryan Seacrest once tweeted that Cowell looked old.
(More Simon Cowell stories.)

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