can people recieve my tweets on twitter when my profile is private?

[zelly]

i want justin bieber to follow me and i tweet him saying can you follow me or something like that so if my profile is on private can he recieve my tweets or no? or does he have to follow me to recieve my tweets when my profile is on private?

[Seleya]

No, if your account is private other users can't see your tweets.

From: http://support.twitter.com/groups/31-twi...d-accounts
If your account is protected, we assume that you only want your followers to see your updates. @replies sent to people who aren't following you will not be seen. If you want to interact with everyone on Twitter, you should not protect your account.