Miley Cyrus tweeted yesterday that she’s just friends with her ex Nick Jonas, after initially not knowing what everyone was asking her about when they mentioned “the rumor.” She did this in a long multi-part tweet that would have been better suited to a blog post. Miley also indirectly called her boyfriend Justin Gaston, the 20 year-old underwear model guy that’s she’s said to have been considering dumping to get back with Nick, the love of her life. All told, Miley issued a kind of non-denial denial that was quite well written considering that she supposedly penned it. It wasn’t that convincing, though. Here are her tweets, in reverse order so they make sense:

whats “the rumor” everyones tweeting me about?

regarding “rumor” i like to keep my private life as private as possible. justin and nick are two very amazing people and they both mean so

much to me. it makes me sad to think that people out there arent friends with THEIR ex bf, because let me tell u it IS possible.

i heard once “u can love more than one in your life but there is only one love of your life” i love both of them so much and they are both

dear to my heart. justin is an amazing person! he can always make me laugh and has a heart of gold. and nick is so lovely. he reaches

out to so many people with his music, not only with his talent but with his heart. our love for music is something that keeps our friendship

together and I KNOW NO MATTER he will be my friend forver. so there thats all i will say about this stupidddd rumor.

[From Miley Cyrus’ Twitter]

16 year-old Miley Cyrus actually makes a lot of sense when she’s limited to 140 characters. She vacillates between sounding mature in her tweets to revealing that she’s just a kid with more money than most of us will see in several lifetimes. At one point yesterday she expressed her awe at seeing one of the greatest works of art “standing in front of the mona lisa. wow” then a few hours later she was “seriiiouusllyy bored,” at which point she went to get a manicure. I’m glad my deep thoughts and momentary boredoms at that age are safely confined to journals that keep getting lost when I move.

Miley and Nick were spotted out to lunch together on April 13. They got a little more attention than they might normally receive for the outing as Nick ran into a parked SUV with his vintage Mustang while the paparazzi were taking pictures. (The other car was fine, but Nick’s Mustang suffered damage to one of the side air vents. He didn’t even stop to check that everything was ok, though.)

The inevitable rumors that the two were back together then surfaced, with The NY Daily News reporting that Miley and Nick were making out at his house, and that Miley was considering breaking up with Justin. I’m not really buying her tweet denial here, because she could be a little firmer that it’s not true instead of saying she loves both guys. It’s like she’s putting them on equal footing even as she calls Nick her ex.

Miley Cyrus is shown shopping in Paris yesterday. Credit: ELIOT PRESS/bauergriffinonline.com