Somehow it's appropriate that Paula Abdul should abdicate her judge's throne on American Idol via Twitter. She's made twittering (lower case) a way of life, playing the twit to Simon's twat for years now. But was her resignation for real? The online reactions to her Twitter (TwitQuit? Quitter?) announcement last night range from surprised (HuffPo) to stricken (Ryan Seacrest's tweet quoted on EOnline) to downright skeptical (Newsday's TV Zone).
Read excerpts after the jump. Best line (from E): "…without Abdul, how are any of the contestants going to know where their magic is?"
This article appears in Aug 5-11, 2009.