On twitter: Are celebrities seeing my reply to them if I protect my tweets?

[baby g]

I am following them but they are not following me? If I put a message like: "@celebrity Hi How are you?" Can they see this message or not? I protect my tweets so other people can't publicly see what I write but can the people I follow see what I write or even reply back to me?

[Abob]

No they cannot see your replies.

Per Twitter support...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.

The only people that can see what you Tweet are the people that you have approved to follow you.

What you might try is to open a second Twitter account just for Tweeting celebs and keep your first account for your personal Tweets.

Just remember that if someone is not following you, your replies to them will not be seen on their main Twitter page. So for example if you send a reply to Ashton Kutcher and he is not following you, the only way he'll see your reply is if he is searching his own name. Your reply won't show up on his main public timeline. The good thing though is that Ashton is known for checking and replying back to many of his fans.