What are @Replies on Twitter?
December 8th, 2009
An @reply is a public message sent from one person to another, distinguished from normal updates by the @username prefix.
If a message begins with @username, we collect it as a reply. Reply publicly to any update on Twitter by using the @username format. Following is not necessary to reply to someone, and all of your replies are visible in the @username tab in your home page sidebar. (Tweets with @username elsewhere in the tweet are also collected in your sidebar tab; tweets starting with @username are replies, and tweets with @username elsewhere are considered mentions.)
Please note that if your account is private, users who are not following you will not see your @replies or mentions.
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