Considering the gushing tones of love most people use to speak about Twitter, it may be hard to believe there are people out there who dislike it.

Simon Cowell, the professional curmudgeon judge of American Idol, had some choice words for people who use the service today in the Telegraph.

“Why would you want to talk to people like that? 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’.”

While he may have summed up what some people do with the service, I tend to think the service is different to almost every person.  In my case, my uses for Twitter change almost hourly.  I can be sharing personal information one minute, and the next I’m promoting one of my many blog articles.  While I do think celebrities do tend to overshare information on the service, it is a great way for them to communicate with their fans, and make them feel more connected.

Sure the service can be a bit random at time by anyone’s standards, but isn’t that half of the fun of it?