A question about twitter!! PLEASE ANSWER!?

[Helen]

it will be public.

when you click on 'reply' all it does is put "@so-and-so" in the box, and then you can type into that box whatever reply you want to make.

it will show up looking like this:

@so-and-so I'M REPLYING TO YOU!!

and everyone who can see your tweets can see that tweet. the person you reply to probably won't notice it, but if they click on the @so-and-so button on the right side of their own page, then your message will be there.

if you want to send a private message, that's called a "direct message."