Billy Corgan criticises Courtney Love's parenting

Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan has taken to Twitter to criticise his former girlfriend and songwriting partner Courtney Love.

Corgan wrote with Love for her new album with Hole, Nobody's Daughter, but has told Rolling Stone he did not give Love permission to use his songs on the Mercury Records album.

Love, the widow of Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain, had posted a lengthy apology on her Facebook page after Corgan's Rolling Stone interview, attempting to reconcile, but just over a month later Corgan took to Twitter to criticise the Hole singer's parenting skills and her songwriting talent.

"If you can't write your own songs maybe you should just be happy that you fooled someone into doing your work for you," he wrote.

"Maybe you should go someone nice+live off your husband's money, u know the money he made for writing all those great songs."

And in reference to Love losing custody of Frances Bean, her daughter with Cobain, Corgan wrote: "The world is aware of your lack of responsibility, as seen in the gov't taking away your parental right.

"Only you could abandon such a beautiful, incredible child who is smarter than u, cooler than u, and better than u. Oops, did I say too much?"

Nobody's Daughter is the first Hole album since 1998's Celebrity Skin, though Love is the only original member to feature on the record.