Twitter & protected tweets

[steve62388]

If my tweets are protected and I tweet a company (e.g. by using @Apple) for some product support will they see it?

Twitter's help section doesn't make this clear.

Thanks.

 

[MacNut]

Yes, but they won't be able to retweet it.

 

[steve62388]

But they'll be able to reply to me, right? All my settings are private.