Unlike Jonathan Ross, Stephen Fry and Demi Moore, Simon Cowell is not down with the kids and doesn’t understand the popularity of social networking site Twitter.

Speaking to Extra, Simon admitted that he finds the whole thing a little random and pointless.

“Why would you want to talk to people like that?

“It’s like phoning someone randomly, who’s number you don’t have, and talking to them. ‘Hi, it’s Simon, I went out with my family this weekend’,” he said.

After being read a Twitter message from Idol host Ryan Seacrest, which said ‘spent weekend with my fam’, he replied: “What’s sad is that he’s having to use the Twitter language like he’s 17. ‘My fam’ – how difficult is it to add on an ‘ily’?”