Twitter privacy? Someone please help me with this?

[anonymous]

My friends came up to me and said "Woah, why did you call that person sexy on twitter? We saw you reply to a picture of them?" I don't feel comfortable with them seeing my tweets to someone else. I unfollowed all my friends on Twitter, but they are still in my "my followers" list. My friend's tweets don't show up in my news feed anymore, but if I make any tweets to a celebrity or just a tweet, would my friends still be able to see them? I don't want to block them, because then my friend's would get mad at me.

[David Smith]

THERE ARE THREE TYPES OF TWEETS:

Normal Tweets:

Definition: Any message with fewer than 140 characters posted to Twitter.
Where it appears for the sender: On the sender's profile page and Home timeline.
Where it appears for the recipient: In the Home timeline of anyone who is following the sender.
Places it will never appear: On anyone else's profile page, unless they retweeted the message.


Mentions:

Definition: A Tweet containing another user's Twitter username, preceded by the "@" symbol, like this: Hello @NeonGolden! What's up?
Where it appears for the sender: On the sender's profile page of public Tweets.
Where it appears for the recipient: In the recipient's Mentions and Interactions tabs, which is accessible only by them. Additionally, mentions will appear in the recipient's Home timeline view (not on their profile) if they are following the sender. Note: Anyone on Twitter who is following the sender of a mention will see the Tweet in their Home timeline.
Places it will never appear: On anyone's profile page, unless they wrote the message.


@Replies:

Definition: A Tweet that begins with another user's username and is in reply to one of their Tweets, like this: @NeonGolden I can't believe you thought that movie was cheesy!
Where it appears for the sender: On the sender's Profile page.
Where it appears for the recipient: In the recipient's Mentions and Interactions tabs. Like mentions, @replies will also appear in the recipient's Home timeline if they are following the sender. Anyone following the sender and the recipient of an @reply will see it in their Home timeline.
Places it will never appear: On anyone's profile page, unless they wrote/sent the message.