'Idol' Buzz: Nigel's bitter tweets

As Season 10 of "American Idol" draws to a close, the insults continue, although this time they're aimed at viewers.

Recently, "Idol" executive producer Nigel Lythgoe took to his Twitter account to strike back at, well, who? Lythgoe tweeted, "Thanks for all the personal abuse from the usual morons out there in Twitterland."

On Tuesday, when MTV asked Lythgoe whom the comment was aimed at, he said, "The ones that believe we manipulate everything. . . . I always end up having to go, 'You morons out there' . . . and realize that I'm arguing with 7- or 8-year-olds from Wisconsin."

Apparently, it's also not a good idea to question Lythgoe about the show's performance order. After uncharacteristically being assigned the opening spot -- generally considered the death slot -- two weeks in a row, rocker James Durbin, who many thought might win, was eliminated May 12.

Lythgoe's response: "James opened the week before. He opened it again [last] week . . . then we changed him to the last , so it was fairer. So when Standards and Practices said to us, 'Why is he opening twice?,' well, he's opening twice because . . . he's the up-tempo one. You don't want to open the show with a ballad. . . . That was all it was. God forbid logic comes into a megalomaniac fan that just wants their No. 1 to win and everything else is: The world's against them!"