FORMER Harvard president Larry Summers has had some harsh words for Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss when recalling his spat with the twins made famous in The Social Network.

Mr Summers led the prestigious university while the tech brats Cameron and Tyler were undergraduates bickering with upcoming Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

"Rarely, have I encountered such swagger, and I tried to respond in kind," Mr Summers said during an interview with Fortune Magazine at its Brainstorm Tech conference in Aspen, Colorado.

"One of the things you learn as a college president is that if an undergraduate is wearing a tie and jacket on Thursday afternoon at three o'clock, there are two possibilities.

"One is that they're looking for a job and have an interview; the other is that they are an a..hole.

"This was the latter case."

The Winklevoss twins attended Harvard at the same time that Zuckerberg launched Facebook and at one point sought help from Mr Summers in their quest to claim credit for the social network.

The twins - nicknamed "The Winklevii" - have since sued Zuckerberg several times, alleging, along with fellow Harvard classmate Divya Narendra, that Zuckerberg stole their idea for the mega website.

Read more about the Winklevoss "a..holes" at CNN

