Are Twitter messages to all followers or to a direct person?

[iloveorchids]

If you put a message on your main twitter page, everyone who follows you will see the message. If you put a message on your main twitter page with @whoeverthenameofthepersonis, that person and everyone who follows you will see the message. In other words, when that person sent you that tweet, everyone of his followers saw his message to you. If you respond to his tweet by putting @hisname, all of your followers will see it as well as he will.

The only way to send a tweet where only that one person will see it is to send it through as a private message. At the top of your twitter page, there is a link titled "Messages." If you click on that link, anything you send in that page will only go to the person you address the message to. He will be the only one to see it.