Twitter Question: If you "reply" to someone on twitter who is NOT following you...do they even see it?

Only if they look. I believe you can fix it so you see replies to you in your stream, but logically, they would simply click the button that let’s you see whatever has been sent @you most recently.

@EmpressPixie wheres the button that lets you see your responses? in other words, how do i find things that people have said to me (if any) if i am not following them (or they me)

When I go to my home page for Twitter, on the right it says following, followers, and under that HOME. Directly under that, @USERNAME. Click @USERNAME and you can see what people are saying to you.

I’m not sure how much http://twitter.com/#replies will show you. In any case, if you go to http://search.twitter.com/ and search for @you, then you will definitely see everything that has @you in it at all.

The reason I can’t answer with certainty is that there have been some recent changes to the way @replies work.

thanks!!! thats exactly what i was looking for!! so this lets me see whats @ME….EVEN if im not following the person???

Yes.

@EmpressPixie thanks again. now this makes a LOT more sense!

That’s why they changed it from “replies” to “mentions”. Any time someone uses @username it’ll show up there, even if it isn’t at the beginning of the post like it used to be.